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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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IDAA loader message HLOU5902S appearing in a Db2 utility running in batch address space.

Issue : DB2 utility running a check index all on a non-accelerated table(space) gave below messages HLOU5902S and HLOU5903W that appear misleading; when the accelerator loader should not be coming into picture here. The DSNUPROC for the DSNUTILB h...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

db2 "export to employee.del of del modified by coldel\t select * from test1"

DB2 Export cannot export data with a two-digit delimiter (\t). If I want to export data separated by \t, DB2 will not be able to support it
over 3 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Add business terms on DataStage flow

On IGC (11.x) -WKC (4.x) migration projects Clients asks to add business terms on datastage next gen flow but now this feature is not available using DataStage next gen flow on new interface.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Logoff URL Improvements

There are two scenarios that don't seem to be currently supported in relation to the logoff URL that would be very beneficial. If a session times out due to inactivity, it doesn't appear to redirect to the logoff URL, if configured, which can lead...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

OpenPages - Dashboard Chart Data Sorting

Bar Chart in dashboard will sort data based on the number of records for each category, w hich sometimes dosent seems ideal. For example we have a dropdown Q1-Q4 now if Q4 is having 11 records and all other are having 5 so system will display Bar ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Feature to preserve offset between job runs and SDCs without enabling failover

Customer is requesting for an option in Control Hub to preserve the offset between job runs without enabling Job Failover. This is because they usually have only 1 SDC running at a time, but when they upgrade to a different SDC engine, they want t...
6 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

SQL Pushback/Write watsonx.data (presto) with SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio

Pain point: Modeler User cannnot analyze large data on watsonx.data(presto), since SQL Pushback is'nt supported Workaround: Copy the data on watsonx.data to the other RDB. But there is almost no advantage to use watsonx.data. Benefit: Modeler user...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration