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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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Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Search Capability on Workflow Instances view

Would like the ability to search on the Name field when on the Workflow Instances view. At times we need to terminate a workflow and there may be thousands of active workflows, so paging through the list attempting to find which object workflow to...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Support user-defined Python module

I would like to maintain a set of Python functions and classes in a separate model/script, then do an import from that module in a notebook and DO4DSX model.Use cases:* I want to move complex function definitions out of my notebook. The functions ...

Ability to copy and paste full result set from an output table

SPSS Modeler V14.1 had the functionality of cutting and pasting a large amount of resultant rows from a stream output table. This functionality has been lost with the newer versions of SPSS Modeler. Currently, SPSS Modeler v17 prompts with an inac...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Not under consideration

Add Abbreviation for REFRESH command in Autonomics Concole

Please add "REF" as an abbreviation for the "REFRESH" command in the Autonomics Console within the Db2 Automation Tool, particularly on the HAA$ALR3 panel. This panel is used to display the autonomic actions within a maintenance window. It is very...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automatic transfer of parametrizations and new versions

Currently, all parametrizations, made in test environment, have to be transferred manually to production (the parametrization has to be repeated). The same is for version transfers. We would like to have a process for automatic transfer. The requi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration