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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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Ability to pull Cognos report relating to specific object when in the object

When viewing a LossEvent for example, would it be possible to add an extract functionality so that we can pull a particular report pointing to that LossEvent reference and data directly from OpenPages. We have a 'Single Event Summary' report that ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Native UTF-8 Support in Db2 DSNxLI Interfaces

We have some issues with customer's name, as we don't have this special characters in our codepage. So we try to use UTF-8 on the mainframe (as the data is coming raw in as UTF-8). PL/I and COBOL newly supports native UTF-8: COBOL: PIC U, PL/I: UC...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Support Kafka version 2.7 for IIDRCDC Kafka target

IIDRCDC supports Kafka as one of target source. At this time, IIDRCDC currently supports Kafka version 2.4 library to connect to Kafka. This request is to add Kafka version 2.7 and higher level support for IIDRCDC. Reasoning is below. We are looki...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Unlocked cells in web

Cells that are locked in form in Excel, are open in web. This is probably due to the fact that the forms are not opened in an Excel environment, but as a web form. This creates a loophole to input data into accounts that should not reported into.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

"Take all recommended actions" in Data Refinery

Data Refinery is a capability designed to make it easy for business users and data scientists to wrangle and transform data. When working with csv files, there is often a series of steps to go through to define the schema / datatypes before anaysi...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Rename the "confidence" value to "score"

In mathematics, the standard way to refer to the numeric output representative of certainty of a classification algorithm is as a "score." The name of this in the json structure returned by Watson Assistant currently is "confidence". However, this...
over 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Grey out unsuitable nodes in NN modeler when building a new network

Studio's neural net modeler is designed to make NN development easier for novice data scientists/application developers. At the moment there is no assistance from the interface to guide developers through the process - they are left to trial and e...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Big Integrate BDFS stage to support parameters.

This request is an offshoot of Case TS008439858. While migrating new jobs to 11.7 that run in a different hadoop cluster, we have run into an issue writing hdfs data to an encryption zone. Our hadoop team is hesitant to set these cluster wide beca...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add WML credentials a la 'Insert to Code'

Insert to code functionality is great to enable quick access to data - I should be able to do the same thing for Watson services (e.g. WML, Image Recogniton) to quickly add credentials to these services into my notebook, without having to go to th...
over 7 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 0 Not under consideration

Support IIDR reads from Secondary Volumes of Global Mirror

Support IIDR Capture reading from secondary volumes of Global Mirror.The customer uses IMS FP function for core banking systems. The customer is planning IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS(IIDR) as the next DR solution instead of IMS RSR.  As...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration