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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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Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Slide decks need to retain slide structure in text content

In document conversion stage it appears that page breaks are not retained in text extracted from Powerpoint slide decks. Unlike word documents which are ususally a continuous flow of text structured by headings, slide decks are strucutred by each ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

table functions to get query-list and table-information

Provide also DB2 zOS table functions which returns the same informations as the stored procedures, at least for sysproc.accel_get_queries & sysproc.accel_get_tables_info At the moment, you can only use stored procedures to get the query-list o...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Retry Virtual Assitant API link can be configurable

Retry Virtual Assitant API link can be configurable. When VGW calls Virtual Assitant API for replies, it does retry, that part should be configurable, so that users can enable and disable it.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1

TBLSpace can not be sized on temporary tables

Trying to use -ef and -en to size the TBLSpace on a system that use a lot to temp tables but the command fails. This is correct functionaility. Various docs/presentation etc existing stating that better performance can be gained from sizing the TB...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Another chart idea for new UI

(separate from the suggestion for KRI time series charts) It would be very useful on objects such as issue and risk event to be able to show a simple graphical representation of dates example dates would be Date identified, occurrence start date...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon PE Client - Non-admin install option

Admin access to company workstations is not an option any more. This is a call to provide a non-admin install option going forward for the OMPE PE Workstation Client.
over 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration