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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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Tool to compare Ground Truth and Decoding Result

In order to improve the machine-learning model, we need to investigate how and what WKS did differently compared to the ground truth. Right now, we are taking screenshots for each documents' ground truth and decoding result and compare and find ou...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Istool command gives "Export failed" when nothing to export

We use the istool.sh command to export parts of XMETA repository. If there is nothing to export, the command returns an "Export failed" message, that causes trouble in our generic error handling functionality. In my opinion the message "Export fai...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Provide an option to clear the timestamp from the Classic internal buffers.

Provide an option with CDC to clear the timestamp from the Classic internal buffers.
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Functionality already exists

Create a separate role for federation.

I tried the suggestions made by John yesterday and it seems to be working so here are two ways to enable user to use federation in self-service mode. 1. Grant user a sysadmin privileges which comes with elevated privileges. User can even make chan...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Allow wildcards to be used in upper case and in phrases

Currently, wildcards can only be used with lower case. If you search for title:IBM* this doesn't work. It doesn't bring anything. If you search for title:ibm* then this brings both documents that have words with the prefix ibm or IBM. Allowing t...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Creating a Level Filter within the reports so that you can say all Level 1s need to match & all Level 2s need to match etc.

Here below a proposal from Global Control to improve the application Cognos Controller. Can you please check with IBM if it is possible to include the functionality here below in the next version of Cognos Controller. Proposal:- At the moment all ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Return the requested number of results when using de-duplicate feature

In speaking to some Discovery News customers, it would be a better user experience to provide the requested number of results to a news query even when deduplication is being used. So today, I send a news query and request 50 results. If the first...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Pivot table row and column choice for Frequency tables

In SPSS, when you sort by X, Y and Z, these variables are assigned to the tables as row headings by default (probably to facilitate layout display). These items then need to be converted to column headings by dragging their variable names in pivot...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Not under consideration

Insert in DB2 iSeries tab...

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Recognize date/time (similar to Watson Assistant System entity)

for many tasks that are time/date based it would be really useful to be able to recognize common terms that represent actual time/dates and be able to get the specific date/time referenced (including relative date/time). For example: "Let's meet t...
over 6 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration