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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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Missing OK Button on Passive Modals

Passive modals previously presented an "OK" button to the user to close the message. The "OK" button has been removed and there is no configurable option to add it back.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fuzzy phrase query

The customer requires phrase query using fuzzy character "∼". For instance, "homicides with firearms"∼1.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Export XGBOOST models as PMML

XGboost models are becoming very popular and it's odd that it can't be exported as pmml like most of Modeler models
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Upload/ drop down feature for pictures (screenshots) in RTF textfields to be shown in reports.

Hello, We use the audit module, in order to document findings we would like to add pictures, tables or other more visible graphs for a reader. These findings shall be reported through "Cognos" and visualized in a standard "audit report". Therefore...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Temporal INSERT syntax for application period temporal tables

We are using application period temporal tables with success. Application period temporal tables and syntax makes it easy to distinguish between the data values and the time dimension of the data.When doing SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE there is a spe...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

A way can backup and restore pureScale instance

Currently an user is running a pureScale cluster, when all of the SAN disks(including the disk where instance path is on) were corrupted, he has to do the following to recovery the cluster: 1) replacing the corrupted disks 2) re-install and setu...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

New Workbook template

Add the possibility to create new custom templates when creating a workbook. the ones available by default from IBM are not fitting with our requests (for example area on top for the title is too high) using free book is not a real option as we mi...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Get notification (toaster) when Dataset and/or Job has finished loading (even if started as part of a job)

If user subscribes to the notification the toaster is notifying "Dataset loaded" and or "Job xxx finished" it sticks until closed by user. Really the feedback for a job finished successfully is lousy and the timestamp for datasets is not always in...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration