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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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Update fields after copying objects

Often times when copying objects there are fields that have to be reset. One example would be updating the status field after copying an object. Another use case would be to update fields after copying templates from the library.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 5 Functionality already exists

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - canvas

When you change something in the job, flow designer changes the layout of the job in the canvas.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Hierarchical Stage- DataFlow designer DataStage - error visibility

When we have a setup problem/error in the hierarchy stage in the mapping Step or output step, the Datastage designer visibly mentions them at the moment in the regular DataStage designer. But that isn't the case with the flow designer, you have to...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0

Allow hierarchical view to select objects

Some objects can be naturally represented in a hierarchical view (for ex. Structures, Business Entities, etc.). In OpenPages today it is possible to create new elements in the tree, associate elements to objects, etc., by selecting them from a lis...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Service for Users to Create Japanese Morpheme Dictionary/Japanese Stop-words Dictionary for Every Account at Any Time.

Japanese morphological analysis seems very difficult because we write the document in Japanese without spaces(e.g. 私の友達は食べることが大好きです。).That’s why my idea is to create Japanese morpheme dictionary/Japanese stop-words dictionary for every account at ...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Webpage Widget to Embed Report - Run Report Full Screen Option

When using the webpage widget within the dashboard to embed a report on the dashboard, the report is not full screen (shows the cognos menu bars). It would be nice to maximize the report size by running full screen. An option in the widget propert...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add search capability for stages on the designer canvas

If you have very large sequences, it can get difficult to find the job that you need to change as you need to scroll through the whole sequence. It would be very handy to be able to search on the designer canvas based on different criteria (stage ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in most...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Backup Failure Alert

Having a push notification of a failure of a business critical event would be very convenient. Currently we would need to sign in to the console on the same frequency as the backup to ensure that it is completing successfully. If we received an em...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration