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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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Allow Chore to be scheduled Once

In the scheduling options of a chore I'd like to be able to schedule a chore to run one time only. At present, I can only set it to run on a repeat of 0-999 days so you can mimic the behaviour as long as you remember to switch off the schedule wit...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

How to customize summary information in dashboard

I have created a country wise crosstab dashboard with 2 measure values where one measure value is picking up the maximum value on database for considering at month level (for eg: if there are 100 rows of data for a column in particular month is av...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Extend filters, query language, and ranker functionality to passages

Currently, filters, query language, and ranker functionality only applies to documents. I should be able to query for specific entities and filter down the results with hard filters (e.g. co-mentions and entity pairs spotted) when dealing with pas...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions.

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions. However, Db2 does allow a change to a column's default value on the temporal table without changing the same col...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Define Search Template for a team

"A search template can be made private to the creator of the search template or it can be shared with all of the users in the company in which the search template is defined." (Infocenter: pim_tsk_dev_creatingsearchtemplate.html) Many business org...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Entry preview does not consider local changes

"Entry preview" are using entry data as they are in DB and are not considering entry data client side as user may have updated some attribute values before launching entry preview. As a result, user must SAVE entry before launching Entry Preview.S...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Manage display name on container

Catalog name is displayed to end-users (in left panel / module) and it cannot be renamed. In Catalog console / Catalog Attributes, can you add a feature to update "catalog name" in order to : 1) adapt name to potential organizational change2) use ...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights management on Lookup table

All lookup tables are accessible to a user who got access right to menu "Lookup console". We would like to have same ACG mechanism which is implemented on Catalog / Hierarchy to manage different level of access.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration