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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.

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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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

Dashboard task chart should have greater variety of colours

The 8.0.0.3 dashboard chart uses only the 'neutral' colours on the grey/blue spectrum. When we have >4 workflows the colours start repeating themselves, which distracts from the chart. Suggest these charts are configured to use the full set o...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Include jdbc oracle string in Search properties file to allow Failover options

Currently, in the Search server properties files, there is option to mention only DB Host name and we can enter only 1 Host name. It would be helpful to add a failover string like in aurora.properties file where we can mention the database.url ins...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 3 Not under consideration

Clear text passwords are displayed in onstat -g sql/ses commands for Informix user account create/modify user SQL commands

When using USERMAPPING feature to create internal Informix user accounts, it was found the SQL command executed to create an account or modify the password of an existing account is displayed in the output of onstat -g ses and onstat -g sql. Also ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Adjustable scaling of axis in all PAW charts

All charts in PAW should allow for (automatic or manual) adjustment of the axis. Line charts currently auto-scale to fit/suit the data held in the chart, however e.g. bar charts do not. This is something that has been noticed by a client and they ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

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