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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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PAW charts: Fixed color for elements

Currently the color of a measure in charts changes depending on the values. It would be helpful to have a fixed color for a given measure. Example: Filter: Product A Actuals (500) - green Plan (100) - red Product B Plan (500) - green Actuals ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow Connections in WML Batchjobs in Pipelines

When developing Data Science models, data source and targets can be both data assets in files or in databases. Especially in large environment, when data is stored in Data Warehouses, data should not have to leave the database from beeing used in ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Setting CNDS to work in AWS Cloud based RDS

Our CADS 8.3 system has been installed in AWS Cloud. It has worked well for a couple of years. Recently the RDS instance that contains the CADS repository was set to enable SSL and CADS stopped working. IBM support Ticket TS014997706 was establish...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Custom Nodes with native Python (not PySpark)

In Modeler 18.5, there are Extension nodes which run native Python scripting (Pandas-based), but not Custom Nodes. In previous versions, the Extension nodes allows PySpark scripting AND Custom Nodes with PySpark. It would be nice to have the abili...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Have the Governance Artifacts editor pages (Terms/Categories) be customizable (delete/hide fields not filled/needed)

Although the Glossary and Category pages serve many purposes for the customers governance endevour oftentimes there is "too much". Many fields will never get touched/used by a customer and it would be nice if one could "get rid" of them (hidding? ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Support for DATETIME data type field in OpenPages

please introduce Date Time field in Open Pages in the future releases. Currently Open Pages has no DATETIME option available while creating a field to hold timestamp value. Business case -> To know how many templates are approved on time, let’s...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Force Save button

It would be nice to force a save on a record, even if it has not been updated. Business use case: A risk record has a control attached. The control has values that are used in a calculation for risk rating that is stored on the risk. The control...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Data Refinery - add annotation on a per step basis

When creating refinery flows please add the ability to document or add comments to each step in the flow.
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration