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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Enable document URL links

When a document retrieved by web crawling is checked from the search screen, I want to enable a link to the original document from the URL in the meta information. The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

Include System Fields:Description on My Assignments dashboard (or make it configurable)

We use the System Fields:Name field as an ID and System Fields:Description field as a Short Name ( I think this is fairly common). Therefore, on the My Assignments dashboard we need to see the Description field.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

Support reading JSON format

This request is to support an ability to parse JSON data within IBM SPSS Modeler -- whether the JSON data is in a file, embedded in a database column, or comes from Hadoop.
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

Extend scriptable interface with methods for determine the type of a prompt control

The scripting interface for custom controls and page modules offers currently (v11.0.11) no documented javacript-method for getting the type of a certain prompt control (e.g. TextPrompt, selectBox etc.).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Left, Right and MID MDX to be supported

There is a list of supported MDX functions. I am surprised to see that Left, Mid and Right are unsupported. Left and right appear to work in PAX, however, they do not work in Workspace. These are basic functions that are incredibly useful when cre...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Release the restriction of restoring and rollforward through a topology change in pureScale

After a change in topology that involves adding or dropping a member, you cannot perform rollforward recovery operations through the point where the topology change occurred;
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 1 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Persona UI free text result systematization

Hi Team, I am a user of Persona UI and have difficulty with reading the result of the free text search. Specifically the 'Entry info' segment. The problem with free text search is that it is searching in every spec by default and excluding the unn...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 6 Delivered

DB2 Migration z/OSMF Workflow Usability / Flexibility

The current z/OSMF workflows delivered with DB2 z/OS version 11 and 12 contain the basic installation process as defined in the manual. Most customers add, delete, reorder or customize steps when they execute a DB2 migration. In order to make the ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered