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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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Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a very...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions.

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions. However, Db2 does allow a change to a column's default value on the temporal table without changing the same col...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable additional Watson services as optional enrichments

As part of enriching documents ingested into Discovery, users have indicated the need augment existing NLU enrichments with additional Watson services. Specifically, a user wanted to use personality insights and NLC to help surface insights on con...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support of AIX 7.3 with MDM 11.6.0.11

We went through the system requirements and found that WAS 9.0.5.11 ND is supported by Advanced Edition of IBM MDM at 11.6.0.11. We have recently upgraded our OS (AIX) version from 7.1 (7.1 TL5 SP1) into 7.3 (7.3 TL0 SP1 ) in lower environments (D...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Save sql output from ADM Tool exec sql.

Sometimes, DBA need to save the sql output to PDS from ADM Tool after executing a select.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Cognos does not permit to choose the from table in a query

IBM Cognos does not allow to choose the from table in a query. The only way to do this is to convert the SQL expression (not affordable in case we'd like to add fields). Use Case: I would like to retrieve the SOX_Issue ID Field and name. In the sa...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration