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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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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 ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 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...
about 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.
about 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 ...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Cognos TM1 Web. View cube. Align values in text cells to the left.

When working with published cube views ,via Cognos TM1 Web, it was noticed that the location of text cell values relative to the edge of the column are displayed similarly to the numeric ones - on the right edge. When working through other clients...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Job slot of suspended jobs should be used in pending jobs

Hi Team, I would like pending jobs to be executed on the slots, where jobs are suspended using bstop command. Currently its not happening and those suspended job slots are remains unused. I request you to have a look and fix this issues in future ...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Application is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks

Without proper input validation and output encoding, information systems are susceptible to cross-site scripting, which may result in unauthorized access or malicious attacks against the user.Hence the Hyperlink should be temporarily removed or hy...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

I configured the job to be executed on a daily. Cads executed jobs duplicate when a server was downed.

When I set the job to be executed on a daily.CADS executed jobs duplicate when a server was downed. When I shut down a server of CADS on Saturday and Sunday.CADS execute jobs 3 times. On Monday CADS executed two jobs of Saturday's (a day of server...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Allow DBADM to grant on view created

Our DBA users connected to a RACF group that has DBADM authority should be allowed to grant on view that they can create.Even when the schema of the view is distinct.Today those DBA can create views thanks to DBACRVW, they should also be able to g...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration