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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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Watson Assistant Web Chat persist state when refreshing page in browser

It would be good to maintain state of chats on on page refreshes. It is usually available with all web chat widgets. For example Zendesk presists state when page is refreshed. I assume they will be keeping visitor ID in the cookie
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

IFCID 316 needs counter for tablespace scans on user tables only

Customers tool uses QW0316NT that is showen as tablespace scans. This counter does not only include scans on user tables but also on workfiles.. QW0316NT (or STAT_RSCN) intentionally includes scans of all workfiles... not only workfiles used for s...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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: ...
about 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...
about 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...
about 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>...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Need keyboard shortcut keys to skip links and move to main report content

Keyboard users are unable to skip the links (on top of report output) and move to the main content of Report Studio report. They have to tab through all the links to get to the main content.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lock event monitor does not log hex values of prepared statements

When using the lock event monitor to track prepared statements involved in lock timeouts/deadlocks, it was observed that parameter marker values for hex entries are not logged even though the option for history and values is enabled. This works fi...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 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.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration