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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.

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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Refresh the formulas have to refresh twice to see the update

When adding DBRWs into a exploration view whether above the exploration area or as user inserted columns, when you click refresh, it would refresh the exploration data, but the DBRW's would show 'RECALC', and you'd have to hit refresh a second tim...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Exploration filters sync together

Tie exploration filters together (sync) so that a user can not filter themselves out of data. If filters are all from the same dimension, be able to sync the filters to not show invalid options based on what has already been selected.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX slow/unable to connect - carhplanp01.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com

When PA times out, currently unable to reconnect without closing all Excel workbooks and at times having to do a full restart.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add support to Jethro datasource over JDBC

Cognos Platform: Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 on Linux We are planning on using Jethro(https://jethro.io/) as an acceleration layer on top of our data lake built on Hadoop with Cognos Analytics as the front end. Jethro offers connectivity to ext...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Slide decks need to retain slide structure in text content

In document conversion stage it appears that page breaks are not retained in text extracted from Powerpoint slide decks. Unlike word documents which are ususally a continuous flow of text structured by headings, slide decks are strucutred by each ...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

DB5T DB2:AFS:DB2 Message ==> DSNT234I

Being able to do a REBIND PACKAGE collection.* without a FLAG option and NOT receive DB5T DB2:AFS:DB2 Message ==> DSNT234I-DB5T MESSAGE LIMIT EXCEEDED
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Retry Virtual Assitant API link can be configurable

Retry Virtual Assitant API link can be configurable. When VGW calls Virtual Assitant API for replies, it does retry, that part should be configurable, so that users can enable and disable it.
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1