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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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Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Let us use a programming language to control the conversation flow instead of forcing us to use the dialog editor

The main feature of Watson Assistant is to categorize utterances and extract entities from them. Currently, the only way to use this feature is to edit the dialog using the UI provided on IBM cloud. It would be nice to have access to the main feat...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Include Graphframes Spark package in CPD

Graphframes package for Spark provides the capabilities of both the GraphX and the Spark DataFrames. The recent Apache Spark 3.0 release has several enhancements with respect to the features enablement and performance, especially, for the Spark Da...
almost 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

At a Parameter to Allow more Flexibility in Kafka Topic Generation in KCOP

One of the potential customer uses Google BigQuery as their standard. The Google BigQuery can ONLY handle TopicName with Alphabet and "_". When I use the Json KCOP, it automatically generate the TopicName in following Format: <instance_name>...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Avoid engine crash during page reads after hardware failure

the index was corrupted by a hardware malfunction, it was not corrupted by Informix, so there were very likely index pages that had been zeroed out, or had garbage on them. When engine try to access the corrupted index or data page it crashes de i...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Display the totals at the top in stacked columns

It is only showing the subtotals within the bars, but not to what they add up to at the top.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start a histogram positioned in the LAST date

If the histogram represents the daily evolution, it would be good the chart to start with the last date selected as the data within the chart is dynamically changing every day, adding a new date. So although one can sort the date asscending or des...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orienting column text Vertically in a list

HR Users would like to present reports to upper mgmt with this formatting.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

KnowledgeCentrer on Docker

Sometimes the knowledgeCenter is not reacheable or it is not working for different reasons, and the access for the documentation becomes an issue. For this reason, I suggest to have the KnowledgeCenter downloadable as a Docker image, as it was pos...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration