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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to generate PRECISION, RECALL and F1 SCORE models indicators

SPSS Modeler should be able to generate Precision, Recall and F1 Score when evaluation predictive models.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Deleting an user from its only organization

Currently, we are unable to delete an user from its only organization. Ourselves and the customer both create new users very often for the development and testing purposes. After our tasks are completed, we are unable to delete the user and we are...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

SAP PACK, ODP Delta-initialization for classification datasources

We extract classification data from SAP , in intial-mode with ODP this takes about 10 minutes. Not being able to run the datasources in delta-mode this is a performance issue. I reported this bug as a case but this way was unfortunately not succes...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

PAW Selector Widget as dropdown

A selector widget PAW is only shown as a flat list. It would be helpful to show it as a Dropdown like a subnm in Excel.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Show Websheets name in PAW

After insert a Excel Websheet in a PAW Book there is no possibility to see the name of the uploaded excel or the name assigned in architect.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

IC reconciliation on transaction currency in Web portal

When using the new web portal it is difficult to see true differences in IC reconciliations. Current IC reconciliation on the web only highlights the total difference, but when working in a multy currency environment that is not enough. A currency...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

JSON File Read for OPL

Many Industries have started using JSON file as a primary data format. However OPL Cplex yet does not provide a direct accessibility to JSON file. People who use doCplexCloud have the accessibility. But other people, who do not use doCplexCloud, c...
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Spark pods, do better clean up for idle pods

In ticket TS016219727 we did some enhancement to the cronjob that cleans up spark idle jobs. This is an issue with CP4D 4.6 and 4.8 on-prem specifically with the Spark IDE started from Watson Studio. We would like for these enahancements to be in ...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review