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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Add Table Understanding as a feature for WDS on Cloud/Cloud Pak for Data

This feature, where customers will be able to get direct answers within tables, aligns with the vision of intelligent document processing and will enable them to easily extract exact answers and find hidden insights whenever their data includes lo...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Four steps of writing a literature review

1. Preparation The first step involves aligning yourself with your topic so that you gain a more comprehensive picture of the area of study. This includes making a list of key terms that will serve as the basis for the next step. Read a recent pub...
about 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Show notes for Inspector obsolete records

Entity records tab does not display notes icon for obsolete records that have a note. See PMR 30848,756,000
over 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Drop STP SQL with dependency of other STP SQL type NATIVE

We have a general purpose StoredProcedure (STPX1) that is called by other native StoredProcedures (STPA1, STPA2, STPA3, etc) that have CALL statements to STPX1, If I need DROP the STP STPX1 (for recreate later) I receive the error -478 for depende...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

PAW Text-Box/Title with dynamic Content from Filter

Reports/Dashboard are more readable if tiles point to the version and period shown in the report. "Revenue 2020 for Company A" could be an example.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Integration with Google Docs G-Suite

Please provide a tool similar to CMO (Cognos for Microsoft Office) that will enable integration with G-Suite tools Google Sheets and Google Slides for Google Office.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Data Smoother" regression line on plot node isn't able to add value with binary data

When trying to visually understand the relationship between a boolean value compared to a continuous numeric feature, the default and only choice for "data smoothing" is a LOESS regression line. It produces only a line that jumps between both bina...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhanced error messaging when loading external data sources to the input node, specifically SAS datasets with data issues

Currently, there is little to no error messaging given for loading data from SAS datasets containing data that is unable to load. In our case, a SAS dataset dimply fails with no message regarding a large dataset with a single row containing data t...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Infosphere datastage connecting to SCALITY - AWS S3 compatible storage

Hello Team, As per our client requirement, We need to establish the connectivity to SCALITY (AWS S3 compatible storage) from datastage 11.7.1 / 11.7.1.3 to place all our archival files into cloud storage. For that POC, we used S3 connector stage &...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration