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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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Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Deploy TI processes with PAW life cycle management

TI processes are an important part of any PA application and should be deployable without any downtime of the target environment at any time. In the current state of PA processes must be deployed entirely manually by copying .pro files and restart...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit the amount of data retrieved from Teradata in a DVM SQL Query

Since the SQL LIMIT parameter is not supported in Teradata, DVM-Teradata users need the ability to limit the amount of data retrieved from a query to a Teradata database otherwise the query does not come back, DVM chews up CPU trying to process a ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TFUI Chart Method Type should include Percentage

The TFUI chart options for Method Type does not include Percentage. For example, if creating a Bar Chart on Issues by Type, while it is meaningful to show the absolute Count for each Bar, it would be equally, if not more, meaningful to show the Pe...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Ability to call REST APIs as a data source in Watson Query

We are currently probing the capabilities of Watson Query to support a data mesh architecture by acting as virtual layer over our heterogenous IT landscape, providing uniformly structured data services to the consumers. A large number of our data ...
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Datasets - size restriction and size monitoring

Administrators should be able to set a limit for the size of a data set. Administrator should be able to monitor the sizes of Data sets.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

show instance in Watson Assistant UI (as was the case in prior version)

The Watson Assistant UI used to show the instance, but that was removed. Now, we need to go to the profile icon and click on it. So, please when in WA and editing a skill, it would be very helpful to display the instance on the screen instead of h...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration