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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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As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

read solution from cpo file

For CP-Optimizer, it would be great to have the ability to read a given solution from a file and pass it to a cpo model as a starting point and also enable to check this solution feasibility
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Ability to Custom size column and rows in Dashboard Tables Object

The table control auto sizes itself based on the data and is typically auto generating the ugliest possible format. Columns are way too big for some values, way too small for others, impossible to make into a small are to display some data. In 11....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Punctuation Needed for IBM Speech to Text Service

I have a customer that is a daily magazine on the web as well as a podcast network. They offer analysis and commentary about politics, news, business, technology, and culture. They are considering our IBM Speech to Text (STT) solution to provide a...
about 4 years ago in Speech Services 0 Planned for future release

Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Autosuggest/autocomplete feature when typing in a dropdown field in WKC .

Autosuggest/autocomplete feature when typing in a dropdown field in WKC .Not able to perform fast search (by typing In field) this a usability issue. This is slowing down our users work.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automatically scaling resources for Watson Studio Runtimes and Spark runtimes Private

For the better utilisation of compute resources in CP4Data, do we have any mechanism to horizontally scale python and spark jobs dynamically at run time. UseCase – To run an spark/python job : 20vCPU and 128 GB memory environment is needed, but th...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Multiple file import on CC Web

A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Ensuring Real-time Accuracy in Time Travel Snapshots

In the Time Travel section of the Data Manager interface, the list of snapshots may not always be current and might occasionally require reloading. When multiple individuals are working on the same schema, there's a risk of overlooking changes mad...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 2 Is a defect