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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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Remove need for plain text password when installing patches.

installUpdates command currently requires you to pass user credentials as plain text on command line.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Requestor enabled based at service level

Requestor only goes with application. We request to go at service level and or session level.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2 1 Planned for future release

Slow running HPO jobs

We are seeing some latency on our platform when we submit a HPO job. When we submit a HPO job via WMLA we see that it is taking ~14 seconds to launch a trial in spite of asking number of parallel runs. Just to give you an idea, if we have latency ...
over 3 years ago in Openscale 1 Planned for future release

Export and Import Expressions To Management Console

Currently in Management Console if you want to use Expressions created by a co-worker the only way to utilized the Expression is to get the text from your co-worker and key it in. This is also the case when you first start using Management Console...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEX SQLSERVER SUPPORT IN IDA

Clustered Columnstore/Rawstore Index feature is not present in IDA for the latest version. We are useing them for our data vaults, facts and dimensions were applicable but we can't used IDA for their specification.
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Scrolling efficiencies and freeze panes functionality

Issue One Selector widgets and dimension pickers are at top of tab. We have a number of visualisations that user can interact with that extend the size of a standard screen. Every time they want to change a widget they have to scroll to top, make ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Treat "ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." not as a schema change and do not require load of IDAA

"ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." is treated as a Schema Change and requires that the table be reloaded. This Alter is not a Schema Change, please don't require a reload after it is executed.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload for training data

We have a JSON file containing all the needed natural language queries and examples for training WDS collection. It would be helpful if there is a way to upload these bulk of queries at the same time to WDS.
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

can we default the asset name, tags and include column metadata for relational data when adding to catalog through a connection to relational data

To make it quicker to populate a catalog, it would be great if there were defaults for asset names - based on the selected schema/table picked. This should also import the descriptions of the column names/types which will be useful for end user to...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

RTM - increase maximum export rows dropdown

please increase the maximum number of export rows available (grid_xport_rows) up to at least 200k
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration