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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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Minor edits should not trigger a workflow

Any workflow adds work. Not all modifications are of equal importance, some the user should be able to do alone. It would be good to be able to define attributes which can be considered of minor importance and those would be just auto-published. O...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Drive explorer defects - IBM Planning Analytics on cloud

We have identified following defects in drive explorer. I would like to request fix these defects before decommission the rich tire desktop. 1) No alert (ignore or override) when same objects exist in both source and target while moving the object...
about 3 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Elasticsearch origin and destination should support proxy

Currently, when SDC is connected to SCH via proxy (Java options http.proxyPort/Host), Elasticsearch origin and destination still try to connect to the Elastic directly, ignoring proxy settings. https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/INT-3217 This...
about 14 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
about 16 hours ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Provide an option to Disable users ability to use SUBSET Editor in a websheet that is being viewed in a PAW Book.

We have complicated websheets for data entry and we do not want users to be able to edit the SUBETS that are being used as drop down selectors from a SUBNM function.
about 17 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Engine Creation - permissions (Anywhere AAS)

Please do not restrict environment creation on Datastage Anywhere AAS projects to the person who created the engine. If that person is unavailable, we cannot create environments.
about 17 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Unrestricted context window for Mistral Large and Llama Models for watsonx.ai Software/ on-prem

One of the differentiators of Mistral large is its large context window. In watsonx however, we restrict this context window for Mistral and Llama models because of performance reasons, see here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/w-and-w/2.0.x?t...
about 18 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Restricted access at a database level quiesce to prevent database activation in order to perform exclusive access operations like offline backup/restore in a multi database instance.

In a multi database system especially when running applications on platforms like OpenShift or even application servers like WAS where applications reconnect very fast, it becomes very hard or even impossible to get exclusive access to a single da...
about 18 hours ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 19 hours ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted