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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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Text respond with MCE feature

Add a "mce edit area" for text respond to allow us to put some part of text in bold, to reduce link length, to put some part of text in oblique style, to change color... Example : http://fiddle.tinymce.com/ or similar
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Planned for future release

Infosphere DataStage Operations console - Authentication request

In current world, once you log into operations console it won't timeout until 12 hours by default. If you set LTPA timeout to your preferences, it will ask for the credentials after the timeout once & then, it never asks for credentials again....
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Allow users NOT to save a model template while importing

Based on our user feedback. When they import a model to the system, most of the time they are just trying their model design. So not always they will need to save the model as a model template for later use. If it is imported as a template, the te...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Planned for future release

Retain new line formatting with SDU

For customers who used non-SDU collections, some of them were using "html" field to retain formatting of text. Now with SDU, this feature is no longer there. We understand that retaining formatting is not possible in SDU. However, newlines are als...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

HSM support for CDC - Oracle TDE

Our oracle databases are soon going to be tablespace encrypted with Oracle TDE and the master key will be stored in HSM. The current enhancement developed in IIDR expects the master key to be provided in clear text form during the instance creati...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

SQL Engine enhancement to support "Db2 mode" SQL syntax rules

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) In DVM, SQL syntax rules are based on ANSI-92 standard, not on Db2 for z/OS rules, even in the case where DVM virtual table is defined on Db2 for z/OS table...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Finnish language

Finnish language as an example - we have build support for finnish and swedish language for Watson Explorer (oneWEX and AC Miner) using external language parser. There is guidelines available internally to IBM and BPs how to do it. We believe our ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Order Execution of Autonomic Actions by Object Size RFE 122603

Descriptionhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=122603 All Autonomics actions with the same priority value to be executed by the Autonomics Director for DB2 need to be executed in ascending order of object size....
about 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Data Refinery Flow - Move/Change Steps Order

I have been working hard on Watson Studio lately and notice a few things that could give Data Engineers the ability to be much more faster and productive while refining data sources using Data Refinery feature. One of the best ways to achieve dat...
about 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release