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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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Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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

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

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 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

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

XML Node cannot handle multiple values for a XML element

XML data source picks up the first value for an XML element with multiple values. All other values for the same XML element are ignored. When I use the XPath expression, the fields having multiple value is dropped, and takes on a NULL value. While...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Prompt user for Dynamic Report name rather than using a random number

When adding a dynamic report, what appears to be added as a reference is a random number. In a book with multiple reports and multiple reports on the same sheet, these numbers give no clue as to which report is being referenced. In Perspectives, i...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 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