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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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Controller Web - Automatic refresh of Counterpart information, without having to manually press 'Refresh' button

Customer has found that (in Controller Web) the values/entries inside 'Counterpart' are not updated in real-time. This means that the information/figures displayed are wrong! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: When looking at company #1102, inside th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Chrome and Edge Compatibility for Inspector

Our organization would like to sunset Internet Explorer and move to Chrome or Edge.
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

A way can backup and restore pureScale instance

Currently an user is running a pureScale cluster, when all of the SAN disks(including the disk where instance path is on) were corrupted, he has to do the following to recovery the cluster: 1) replacing the corrupted disks 2) re-install and setup ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

provide procedure to clean up explain tables based on given criteria and build RI to aid that cleanup

each time a bind is run with explain(yes) rows are written to multiple explain tables but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to delete all those rows in all those tables so that only the rows that correspond to the explains of current, previous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Upgrade IE Software on Cloud Environments

Would it be possible to upgrade the IE to a current version? When working in the Cloud environment, and needing to research something quickly, it would be helpful if the sites weren't all shut down due to running an outdated browser.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reset dependent field values to null and only display valid values once controller field value is updated

Instead of showing this error message: "The value in this field is no longer valid", the dependent field values should be reset to null and to have only the valid values in the picklist once the controller field value is updated into a different v...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration