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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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Add a configurable threshold for Disambiguation

Currently, Disambiguation has a fixed threshold of confidence between the top intent and other intents to trigger disambiguation. We would like to see this threshold be configurable so that disambiguation doesn't get triggered too often (or not as...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

DB2 v11.5 Bind File and Package Name List

IBM published a technote "DB2 Bind File and Package Name List" https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21987465 listing all the names of the bind files of the different versions of Db2. It needs to be extended for Db2 11.5
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 7 Not under consideration

JOIN keys in JOIN stage should be able to be used even if each fields/columns have different names in each.

When users use Join stage for TableA and TableB, if each join keys have different column name (for example, each join key’s column names are col1a in Table A and col1b in Table B), it goes to error. Our customer strongly requests us to improve so ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Query 1 Functionality already exists

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Integer Increment Function on Workflow

We are trying to use the Task Focused UI Workflow to increment an Integer field as an action on one of the stages. This is a common function usually handled via a Trigger. I can see that the increment Date field works with a set number of days. Th...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

e3270 needs to show which packages is invoked in a thread (like Db2 Classic)

In Omegamon Db2 v5.4 enhanced 3270 interface there isn't provided a way to see which packages has been invoked in a given thread : Neither in active threads (beneath panel KDPTHD52) Nor in Thread History (beneath KDPHISTL) The curren
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Future consideration

QIDCA (Quantum Integrated Distributed Computing Architecture) is a revolutionary framework that integrates quantum computing and classical distributed systems to enhance computational power, security, and efficiency in data processing and problem-solving tasks.

Why is QIDCA useful? QIDCA is useful because it leverages the unique strengths of both quantum and classical computing to tackle complex problems more efficiently than traditional methods alone. By integrating quantum computing's ability to handle...
5 months ago in Db2 / Compression 0 Not under consideration

Ability to disable printing

Our application stores sensitive data. We have architected it with security in mind, are using role based access to restrict data and have included confidential watermarks on COGNOS reports, while also restricting who can export data/reports from ...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review