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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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API to import SDU Model to a collection

Currently i can create configurations, create collection and add the config to the collection, update stop words , the only thing I cannot do is import the SDU model. This functionality is requested by few clients as they manage the initial creati...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To have numerical filters like 'greater than', 'between',etc., for fields of type Integer on Dashboard

Problem Statement: We see String based filters like "Contains", "Equals", "Starts with" etc., for a field which is of Integer Data Type on the Dashboard. Steps To Reproduce : Drag the integer field to any Visualization in the dashboard and try fil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Deployment of Individual Data Modules

Problem: You cannot select Datamodules individually for exporting/deployment. The only option is to select a folder. This creates problems if you have a central Packages/Data module location for you business users. You cannot deploy a single or mu...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for Date Prompt

The date prompt is used in many financial reports, Including quite a few that have specific relative dates (actuals for yesterday, actuals for last month). The date prompts should be able to set dynamic default values (current_date - 1), however, ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

DSNTIAUL should support input LRECL size of > 80 bytes and not ignore input beyond the first 72 bytes

It is sometimes easy to put SQL all on one record as long as the LRECL of that record is very large. It becomes difficult to parse that SQL so it is divided into 72 byte records. Currently, the IBM utilities have input files that can have a LRECL ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Certificate renewal needs to be more transparent and controlled in a time convenient

Customer is using the Watson Studio IDE with Jupyter, spark. They have a team of 30-40 data scientist that work during the day and it appears an internal CP4D certificate renewal. This caused 150 pods to reboot during the day. Although this task s...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Inherited Access to Logical Data Model and its Entities and Attributes

The Business Users would like access to be granted at the Logical Model level, and this access be inherited by all Logical Model Entities and Logical Model Attributes, or access granted at the Logical Model Entity level and inherited at all Logica...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

REBUILD - After recovery of TS is NPSI improvement

Recovered SEMHNSA Partition 1 which has a NPSI. Rebuild has no idea that only partition 1 was recovered and rebuilds all the partitions for NPSI XEMHUNSA. Believe improvements need to be made to make the REBUILD know that only partition 1 needs to...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Is a defect