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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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Ability to copy discovery news into another discovery collection

This helps in building unified knowledge graphs and will help in accessing all information in a single store
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow calling Watson AI APIs in-process rather than as a remote API call

A frequent ask is to allow calling the Watson AI APIs in the same process. For example, if you have a spark or pandas dataframe containing a news story per row, if would be great if each row could be mapped to a local Watson AI function call rathe...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

LSF License Scheduler to support FlexNet Manager

License Scheduler parses the output of lmstat to "know" the relationship between job and license. The limitation is that lmstat doesn't provide sufficient information and it has chance that LS cannot accurately knows that which job is holding whic...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Save partition variable in Neural Networks procedures

Problem: In some procedures (like Nearest Neighbor analysis) if cases are randomly assigned to the training and holdout samples on the Partitions tab, they can be saved as a new variable with the values of the partition (training or holdout) to wh...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Transfer of exploration mode reports to other cubes

If exploration, custom or dynamic reports only contain elements in the rows, columns or background filters that are available in another cube, it should be possible to apply the report on the other cube. Update button within properties only availa...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Rename the "confidence" value to "score"

In mathematics, the standard way to refer to the numeric output representative of certainty of a classification algorithm is as a "score." The name of this in the json structure returned by Watson Assistant currently is "confidence". However, this...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Declarative RI for Db2 LUW Bitemporal tables

it would be good to implement Bi-temporal Period Containment with declarative RI in Db2 LUW
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Non unique Alias

Allow non-unique alias/display name
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration