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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow native support of user-defined collation such as EBCDIC in CREATE DATABASE command

This will allow easy creation of databases on LUW supporting EBCDIC collations which will in-turn allow easy migration for Db2 on z/OS to Db2 LUW. Currently, this is only supported via the user-defined option of sqlecrea() api and a C program has ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

WQ - Delta Lake format support

WQ/BigSQL supports hive style partitioning, but but it does not support delta lake format at the present time. For example, today we can query data stored in parquet files on ADLS. It would be fantastic to extend this to support the new Delta Lake...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

To expose Scoring.status() as REST API

To expose Scoring.status() as REST API
over 1 year ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Not under consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Hide Right hand side Y axis in combination chart in dashboard

Hide Right hand side Y axis in combination chart in dashboard, as of now you either show both left hand side and right hand side, or none.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart scrolling when there are too many categories makes the content not readable in the dashboard

Chart Scrolling when there are too many categories not possible in the dashboard. In case of horizontal bars with the values - scrolling does not allow to view the bars and the values clearly
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sandbox Non-commit feature and sharing of Sandbox

We have come across the business requirement as follows: Request to have these features be added to the Planning Analytics tool. 1. Can we restrict user to do only scenario planning in the sandbox but can't update (commit) the base instance? 2. Is...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simple Configuration & Health script that reports high-level database metrics

The purpose of a simple Configuration & Health script is to provide DBAs with a high-level view of macro database metrics that could suggest specific areas worthy of further investigation. The report would include these components as follows: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

mbatchd log job submission rejection

It is helpful to have job submission rejection logging to log file so we can set up monitor to size the issue and early warning alert of scale of issue
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration