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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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stripchar() function requires use of accent grave instead of quotes (I'm not making this up!)

When attempting to use the stripchar() function in a DERIVE node to remove spaces, dashes and parentheses from a phone number string field, I encountered an error: failed to apply operator or function to argument types stripchar(SYMBOL,SYMBOL). Th...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Item Export sheet should show the drop-down list of Display Attribute for Lookup type attribute.

Current Behaviour: When we export the item, the lookup attribute is exported only as a primary key(the drop-down list contains primary key.) Idea/Requirement: In the Item Export for the lookup type attribute user should have choice to export as pr...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support annotation tasks for structured data in WKS to define column-to-column or column-to-Primary Key relationshios (semantic, dependency, etc. )

Watson Knowledge Studio supports annotation tasks in support of type system development for unstructured data; however, it does not currently support structured data annotation tasks. The ability to define relationships between columns would offer...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Explore Summary from compare card

Copying (ctrl+C) summaries from explorations into Dashboards
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use SP DSNUTILU with IDAA LOADER SERVER

We tried to use WLM stored Procedure DSNUTILU to run HLV Loader instead of DSNUTILB with JCL without successful. We opened PMR 16347,250,631 to treat this issue and we was informed that is not is possible, then at this moment we can not use IDAA L...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve handling with complex values within slots

If you don't want to save the 'Check for'-expression as value for a slot you can use the JSON Editor. Thats important because otherwise we weren't be able to reformat a date or time before saving it. Saving multiple values of a pattern based entit...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow for unique constraint definitions on accelerated tables

We ask to implement an option to allow for unique constraint definition at accelerator level ; this would apply both to Accelerator Only Table ( AOT ) and to shadow-table loaded with IDAA_ONLY option available with Accelerator Loader. DB2® uses un...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration