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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Slide decks need to retain slide structure in text content

In document conversion stage it appears that page breaks are not retained in text extracted from Powerpoint slide decks. Unlike word documents which are ususally a continuous flow of text structured by headings, slide decks are strucutred by each ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Retry Virtual Assitant API link can be configurable

Retry Virtual Assitant API link can be configurable. When VGW calls Virtual Assitant API for replies, it does retry, that part should be configurable, so that users can enable and disable it.
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1

Exapnd the capabilities of the "Data PLayer" Viz widget to allow for a an ALL or off capability.

A user with a dashboard hat has a step through capability offered through the data player, may have a need to view the dashboard content without the filtering/step effect of the Data Viz widget. Currently this cannot be done (CA 11.1).This may NOT...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New UI - Criticality to allow for 'Not Defined' or 'Not Applicable'

On some objects it is meaningless to define criticality, or at least meaningless when only having fields on that object available for the rule e.g. Action object may not have a RAG, because the RAG is defined on the parent issue e.g. Test Pla...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Not under consideration

Necessary possibility to track the different type of licenses - Cognos Analitics or Planning Analytics

It is good to have the ability to track the different type of licenses via Cognos Portal. Now form Manage->licenses we can see how many licenses are occupied and by hum, but we don’t know how many licenses are used for Cognos Analitics and how ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration