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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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DB2 should produce more accurate filter factors (to better optimize queries)

Today, when I have a query with an equals predicate and also an "IN LIST" predicate and both apply to the same table and when I have correctly collected multi-column frequency distribution stats for the two columns involved with these two predicat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add default entities like location and amount

The Watson conversation service has the ability to identify both numeric digits and numeric text. I would like the NLU service to have these default entities supported so that I can train models in Knowledge studio with both text and digits. Curre...
over 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 2 Planned for future release

Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...)

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...) - It would be very usefull to select records that were just merged. The same way like with DELETE / UPDATE and INSTERT: SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (DELETE / UPDATE / INSERT)
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload

We need a tool for the bulk upload of data into OpenPages. It must be an automated process able to import files with up to several millions of records. It can be started by the user , but it must also be schedulable. It must manage several data fo...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Functionality already exists

install libnsl automatically during LSF installation

In RHEL8, I found the follows error. [root@rhel86 lsf]# lsadmin limstartup lsadmin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And I found "Known issues" part in LSF guide ment...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support a more robust yet responsive SDLC within the Watson Assistant studio

Rather than suggest a solution (we have multiple ideas, I’m sure IBM and community would have many others) thought it better to state our problem. Our needs: We need to speedily develop and promote conversation fixes to production to respond to pr...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 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...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration