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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 upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
about 7 years ago in Db2 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

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

Cognos Analytics Upgrades - Detecting Customized Configurations No longer required

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) is a solutions provider with a complex architecture and implementation of Cognos Analytics. One our main struggles is upgrading from one version to the next. UKG has implemented product customizations, advance settings ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

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

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