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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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HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provid...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to join EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in IDAA

We have a lot of EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in production, and in many cases those tables would have to be joined to execute our operational analytic workloads on IDAA. Altering the objects to make it work is an option since many of those tables ar...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Multitenancy support for Data Virtualization for On-Prem Cloud Pak for Data single-instance deployment

This is relating to on-premise deployment of Cloud Pak for Data on bare-metal servers. In the case where customer is achieving multitenancy within a single instance of Cloud Pak for Data, Data Virtualization Service currently unable to provide the...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

Uncheck boxes when creating a new view from data module

If you want to create a view from an existing package or cube within the data module, all data is first retrieved and the checkboxes are ticked. This takes a long time with large packages. It would be better if these checkboxes are turned off by d...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Is there a way for fastmap updates to interact with workflows

Whilst an auto-start workflow would be capable of starting workflow instances, would it be possible for a fastmap to update the workflow stage e.g. bulk approval or bulk collection of KRIs. I don't think the current 8.0.0.3 offers this capability,...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Not under consideration

PAx Viewer should have option to save View

The Viewer in PAx has no option to save a view(private or public) One has to export to exploration to save a view there instead. This two step process to save a view is silly
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple extensions on app bar based up on permission

If we assign multiple custom folders to one user role, currently the product will only one custom folder to appear and there is no way to tell which one will show.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide better hang information

In the case of a hang, we only have the material for root-cause analysis if we were able to collect db2fodc information before the system became fully unusable. A small moving window of such information written out to disk on a regular basis would...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

The number of input variables that Auto-AI can consider is limited.

Currently, Auto-Ai does not support Spark run-time at the back end, resulting in slowness while Model development using Auto-AI The number of input variables that Auto-AI can consider is also limited. Customer has a model with almost 324 input var...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Not under consideration