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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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WKC - -support the concept of group to assign roles

Currently only single user can be authorized in CPD. As with WKC many user may access the platform and have to be administered. Synchronizing groups from LDAP and assigning roles to a group wil be requested.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Implementation of field filter function in Watson Discovery

Our customers are using oneWEX's contnet mining and have migrated their miner collection to WD Premium since June of this year. They used the field filter, which was a function of oneWEX, to divide the text in the field. However, WD does not provi...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

setup limitations on cpu, memory, workspace and elapstime

Hi, when migrating from Netezza to the new IDAA appliances (Db2 Blue), we saw a lot of new issues popping up. One major issue that is still not solved in v7.5.3, is that we experience a lot of very long running queries in the appliance. Sometimes ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Configure offset of date picker via UseExcelSerialDate

It is great that you implemented the date picker for workspace, but... When UseExcelSerialDate=F the offset for the date picker is Jan 1st 1900, whereas for date commands like DATE ist is Jan 1st 1960. This should be aligned to be consistent!
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration