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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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Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Kerberos authentication for IIDR for SQL Server

Sql server for AlwaysOn configurations require a stand alone Distributor sql server instance. Because of this IIDR needs to double hop connections to this sql instance and in our environment Kerberos authentication is required. Since Kerberos auth...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Calculate deserved slots only based on active i.e. non-idle consumers in e.g. Symphony HostFactory symA requestor

This comes from discussion in TS009907566 "Hostfactory scale up while cluster had free slots". "egosh consumer view" provides, in addition to other outputs, "Planned Quota" and "Share Quota", for a particular resource group (RG): "Planned Quota" i...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Specify Application Trace

Customer is complaining that he is unable to perform traces on DB2 threads coming from the distributed side. These threads arrive all to DB2 with the same plan name ('DISTSERV'), and the only way to tell them apart is to use the Correlation ID (CO...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Allow buttons/rich response as part of Option Response Type for Intercomm

Typically, we can adjust the Option Response Type to be a button or list etc for responses on the chat. However, support team confirmed with development team that rich response is not available for Intercom. This request is to impletement support ...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS LOAD utility fail in utilinit holds UTUT status

LOAD REPLACE LOG(YES) fails due to share locks/claims being held on tablespace but leaves tables in UTUT status which makes in inaccessible. Suggest that the UTUT is removed or changed to UTRW and can attempt UTUT again upon restart of the utility...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Wordcloud interactivity

Currently, a word cloud is filtered by the filters in the "all tabs" or "this tab" pane. When a user applies a filter on another visualization, the words in the cloud will be highlighted. We would like to have the ability in the properties to opt...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

EGO_MASTER_LIST supports DNS alias

The client would like to be able to specify alias DNS name instead of official hostname for EGO_MASTER_LIST in ego.conf. For example, there are below master, master candidate, management hosts in the cluster. The left side is their official host n...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration