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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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Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Encript passwords in Configuration export

Password(hashed) in Cognos configuration is visible in Cognos configuration export. Need to create option to hide/encrypt passwords entered in Cognos configuration when exporting configuration to a file
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CREATE TABLESPACE or CREATE TABLE to have MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale

We want to be able to have tablespace use MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale just like the mainframe.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Specify Application Trace

Customer is complaining that he is unable to perform traces on DB2 threads coming from the distributed side. These threads arrive all to DB2 with the same plan name ('DISTSERV'), and the only way to tell them apart is to use the Correlation ID (CO...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode.
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Allow buttons/rich response as part of Option Response Type for Intercomm

Typically, we can adjust the Option Response Type to be a button or list etc for responses on the chat. However, support team confirmed with development team that rich response is not available for Intercom. This request is to impletement support ...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic priority based on jobarray length

We exclusively work with jobarrays at our company. We have a queue reserved for jobs that take no more than 3 minutes. A general rule of thumb is that small jobarrays at our company can be considered as interactive jobs where the user waits for th...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Not under consideration

XML transformation

Add XSLT 3.0 support to Hierarchical Data component in DataStage product. Actually, this compenent supports only XSLT 1.0 specifications, which dates from 1999. Others ETL tools, support new XSLT specification using Java and Saxon librairies.
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration