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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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Ability to use Surrogate Key Generator in DataStage for Netezza DBMS

We are trying to use the balanced optimizer feature in DataStage 9.1 to rewrite the ETL logic in SQL that runs on the Netezza appliance instead of the DataStage server. We are looking for a way to generate the surrogate keys that works in DataStag...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Flexibility in FTM-Swift (MER) to use wild-card in local address(CO of type DnqERLocalAddress ) creation.

Dear all, It would be nice to have wild-card used in the local address like how wild-card could be used in a CO to a role. This will be helpful in maintaining the local address configuration and have the flexibility. Thanks and regards
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Functionality already exists

Read Only Access to Permissions and Capabilities Tabs

Users who can't access folders or reports due to security settings don't understand what the security settings are to know what access to request. They can't see the Permissions and Capabilities tabs of the objects.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Localize attributes

With the Caption attribute it is possible to maintain translations for most objects like cubes, dimensions, elements etc. But is seems not to be possible, to localize attributenames. For example you have a dimension Product. This dimension ha...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

anti-synonyms for entities in Watson

We have synonyms in watson, and fuzzy matching - which works great! But there are cases were Watson selects completely wrong entities. I have no way of fixing this. My example case:- user text contains the string 'Whats' - watson identifies...
about 4 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Functionality already exists

(solved) Be able to upload images to Cloud multitenant, so I could use them in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs

(solved) In Cloud mutitenant, the images I use in Report works with HTML only. It won't work in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs. It's because the rendering occurs inside the Report Server. The images have to be located inside the Report Server...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

determine length of data stored in smartblob

Just because data is stored as a smartblob not blob, we have to go to a work around solution to get "LENGTH" of blob stored. By using length(smartblob) the amount of bytes stored in the smartblob should be returned. The LENGTH function works ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Modeler code conversion

It seems that Modeler converts characters as explained in the attached file. Therefore, Japanese has a problem with the Unicode converter. Some Japanese characters are garbled when converting from Shift-JIS to Unicode and when converting from Unic...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists

Work load manager- time wasting while waiting for a job to start

Hello We did a migration from datastage version 7.5 to version 11.5. while deliver all jobs to production we realize that the performance in the new version are very poor compare to the old version. after investigation we realized that it bec...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Display correct document names in the SDU interface.

Nokia is using WDS for their HR Chatbot, and trying out long tail search optimisation through SDU. Anyhow, in the SDU UI's dropdown file list, the files uploaded from the CAESAR/SEA (chatbot asset) Admin Panel to Discovery always get "_" as the ex...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists