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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Enhance slowly changing dimension stage to full bi temporal join

Enhance the functionality of the stage "Slowly changing dimension" to a bi temporal functionality like the time travel feature from DB2. A typical use case in every DWH or data lake project is to store all versions of the data which you get from y...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Data refinery preview data set should be controlled and managed by the user

The end user of Data Analytics project in WKC should be enabled to control the Data refinery preview data set interactively and select data source subset, which will produce representative and meaningful output results without the need of running ...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Planned for future release

IIDR CDC : Remote Db2 z source, microseconds precision to DM_TIMESTAMP

IIDRCDC for Remote Db2 Source is relatively new IBM product that replicates data from Db2 z/os but some part of CDC engine can be remote from z/OS. In this particular scenario, source is Db2 z/OS using remote Db2 IIDR and target is flat file using...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Bulk upload for training data

We have a JSON file containing all the needed natural language queries and examples for training WDS collection. It would be helpful if there is a way to upload these bulk of queries at the same time to WDS.
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve working with connected data and connections

It is correctly required to create a connection object in a project and then to create another "connected data" object. It would be much more convenient to directly browse the connection within the context of the connection in order to create the ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

can we default the asset name, tags and include column metadata for relational data when adding to catalog through a connection to relational data

To make it quicker to populate a catalog, it would be great if there were defaults for asset names - based on the selected schema/table picked. This should also import the descriptions of the column names/types which will be useful for end user to...
over 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration