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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Automatic re-order suggestion for dimensions in cube

In Architect the Cubeoptimizer window contained an automatic suggestion of re-order for the dimensions in an existing cube. In PAW this option is not available. There is only the possibility to re-arrange dimensions by trial and error, which is a ...
14 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
6 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Planning Analytics Workspace object sizes

Problem Description There is currently a maximum size to the content the PAW backup.ps1 script can manage. If the PAW container databases exceed this maximum size, then the backup.ps1 script fails. Currently there does not seem to be a way to de...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup size limitation

Problem Description The backup.ps1 script, used to backup PAW in Windows Server, uses the compress-archive PowerShell command. This command uses the System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive API to compress files, and the API limits the maximum file size...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Remote storage and datalake tables for Db2 on AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. Many large customers have their Db2 workloads on Power/AIX, benefitting from the platform. To keep Db2 as core component of lakehouse architectu...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to bookmark own content

In our operating model users are working strictly with limited amount of catalog items/categories/projects. So instead of every time "finding" ones content by re-browsing all catalogs/categories/projects again it would be great to be able to bookm...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Have PAW support authentication through multiple CAM instances

In Cognos Analytics you can install separate gateways pointing to separate namespaces (CAM instances) - but still the same Cognos installation/environment. This option is not available with Planning Analytics Workspace - PAW can connect to only on...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration