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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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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

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Information on SSL certificates with Planning Analytics

Improving clarity on the rules around SSL certificates in planning analytics, particularly when clients want to use their own already signed certificates. So above all we need clarity on exactly what can and cannot be done with certificates from d...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Recognition of lower level regions in maps

Maps should have the ability to resolve lower level regions. such as boroughs, townships, etc. For example, Canadian regions such as Kanata, Nepean, etc. which can be mapped as points and not shapes.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Whitelisting IP address Market Harborough

Market Harborough building society want to set up 2 factor authentication for their Planning analytics cloud installation and as part of this require that their IP is whitelisted. For Market Harborough this is a pre-requisite before customer sensi...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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

HIPAA Compliant integration between Watson Assistant chat-bot and a Slack Channel

In the healthcare industry, privacy is beyond paramount and thus HIPAA compliance is a must and the fewer points of failure the better. That Is why having a complete integration of an HIPAA compliant IBM chat-bot with a Slack channel is crucial. ...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

RFI response is not showing up under the pacs.008 related transaction tab, and pacs.008 is not appearing on RFI Response related transactions tab

RFI response is not showing up under the pacs.008 related transaction tab, and pacs.008 is not appearing on RFI Response related transactions tab.
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Future consideration