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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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It should be chooseable OUTER of INNER JOIN in DV.

In DataVirtualization, we can create join view. But we can create only inner join view by using GUI. We know we can create outer join view by using SQL editor. But it is not acceptable from our customer.
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

PMR 51742,442,000- Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.

1. Column width not applied if set in Report Studio.2. Refreshing list with less data leaves empty row and column cells3. Refreshing list with more data does not get published
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cp4d to run on AWS kubernetes

We are WEX users and now exploring CP4D. As we have very big environment, currently WEX manages all WEX components. Deploying CP4d adds another Openshift in addition RHEL. So the team has to support Cp4d, Openshift, RHEL and al add-ons. We are pla...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

No logging available for troublehsooting

With lot of excitements, we deployed CP4D on Openshift on-premise. Unfortunately we are uncovering issues one by one. One of key issue is troubleshooting. Example when discovery crawl shows no document, there is no information about why no documen...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Google BigQuery for Mac

BigQuery and Mac users are increasing in entertainment industry or startup company. Supporting Google BigQuery and the SQL Push Back for Mac is needed to sell SPSS Modeler to clients.
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration