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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.

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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Display correct document names in the SDU interface.

Nokia is using WDS for their HR Chatbot, and trying out long tail search optimisation through SDU. Anyhow, in the SDU UI's dropdown file list, the files uploaded from the CAESAR/SEA (chatbot asset) Admin Panel to Discovery always get "_" as the ex...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Generate controlled number of rowgroups in parquet file

While creating a parquet file, datastage doesn't allow the user/developer to control the number rowgroups to be created per file. We have received following feedback and suggestion from the PMR support - "The Parquet Parser / Builder implementati...
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Retreive sound file previously streamed to Watson Speech-to-Text

When working on improving our product, we'd like to capture field failures that could be used to train our custom speech-to-text model. We have a wake word (handled locally) and then we establish a connection to IBM Watson's Speech-to-Text service...
almost 6 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Create a setting to open journals accross for mutliple companies in one excel workbook, instead of multiple workbooks

When Clicking "Group - Reports - Journals Across... AND untick the box 'All Companies - Only One Level', then clicking on 'Company' AND selecting multiple (for example 4) companies AND clicking "Send to Application" The output are 4 separate ex...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Allow for FTM Console to point to a read on standby instance of database

We've seen in the past that operators running "bad" queries on the FTM console (say, searching for all transmissions, loading the raw data of a 100 MB file, etc) can cause performance issues for live transactions. We would like to be able to point...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

cloud storage capability

SPSS does not have the functionality to retrieve and/or save data and output to the cloud. This seems way out of date and should be easily correctable. The measurable benefits would be less complicated logistics in loading and saving files and tim...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 3 Not under consideration

Performance of Admin UI Import very slow compared with Object Manager importing the same XML

The performance of Admin UI Import is much slower for Object Types and Profiles than Object Manager. The same XML files when loaded via object manager vs Admin UI import timings are below: - Object Type = SOXDocument, SOXExternalDocument. UI = 1 H...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Is a defect

Enhancing names of docker images for different instances

Information from Case numbers: TS002979327 and TS002990656 We are testing datastage 11.7.1 (kubernetes version) In case# TS002979327, following was recommended: ----- 2) you needed to modify your /etc/hosts file on your client machine with:<...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration