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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.

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Entry preview does not consider local changes

"Entry preview" are using entry data as they are in DB and are not considering entry data client side as user may have updated some attribute values before launching entry preview. As a result, user must SAVE entry before launching Entry Preview.S...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Manage display name on container

Catalog name is displayed to end-users (in left panel / module) and it cannot be renamed. In Catalog console / Catalog Attributes, can you add a feature to update "catalog name" in order to : 1) adapt name to potential organizational change2) use ...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights management on Lookup table

All lookup tables are accessible to a user who got access right to menu "Lookup console". We would like to have same ACG mechanism which is implemented on Catalog / Hierarchy to manage different level of access.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Save and (restore) access plan for dynamic and Statis SQL

Sometime after maintenance, or index/stats change, certain SQL can pick a bad access path. It would be nice to be able to save access path and force db2 to pick old access path. We just had very painful process after V11 migration. When access pat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

modify dsntep2 to produce result set despite exceessive warnings

DB2 and IDAA do not produce the same results for the example in question. That has been explained and will be documented but we would like to see DSNTEP2 at least run and produce output instead of only returning SQL error codes (-171 in our exampl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW: Greyed cells (by security) makes the scroll bar difficult to see

When a user don’t have write access, the cells are greyed (which is a very useful indicator). However that shade of grey is very close to the one used for the scrolling bars. Would it be possible to make the grey of the cells a bit lighter (prefer...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW: Be able to move elements in dynamic set (with convert to static pop-up)

It is not possible to reorder elements within a dynamic set (which is fine in itself). However if the original intent was not to have a dynamic set (default behavior), we would like to easily be able to re-order them by drag&drop (with the usu...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW: Ability to Move/Copy more than one object at a time

Currently there’s no way to Move/Copy several objects at the same time. It has to be done one at a time which can be very long if you need to move/copy a lot of assets
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to delete disabled nodes when turning off MCR

Currently, when you turn off MCR (Multiple Conditioned Response) it will disable the separate responses instead of deleting them. This means they are kept in the skill/module but won't be visible in the Watson Assistant UI (can be seen in the down...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Ability to search by Icelandic inflections / word forms

We have been looking for ways to support searching in Discovery by the different Icelandic word forms / inflections. We tried uploading the different forms into the Discovery synonyms support, but encountered a limitation of max 5000 expansions or...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration