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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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Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
2 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enhance the "Schema filter" field functionality for IBM Cloud Database for MongoDB.

It would be beneficial if this field could display a list of available schemas, as currently, a connection cannot be created without populating the "Schema filter" field. Often, users may not know the exact schema name in advance, so it would be i...
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Enhance Pie Chart with Additional Dimension\Hierarchy Level to Support Sunburst Chart effect

I would like to propose an enhancement to the existing Pie Chart functionality in PAW. Currently, the Pie Chart supports visualization for a single dimension, which limits its ability to display hierarchical data effectively. I request an enhancem...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enable/Disable SuppressZero for All Widgets on a Tab

Currently, when working with a page on a book containing multiple widgets (such as cube views and charts), enabling or disabling the SuppressZero option needs to be performed individually for each widget. I propose adding an option to enable or di...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

ActionButtons with dynamic Excel references

Dear Sirs, as you know, the cell references itself for the action buttons are not dynamic, only if using the named ranges. As you are updating PAfE and lots of things in the back-end, is it possible to give the possibility of dynamic cell referenc...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Support VMware MIGs for foundational model serving

The documentation states that MIG is supported for foundational model serving in watsonx. However, this refers only to a scenario where MIG is enabled within Openshift, with Openshift itself receiving passthrough GPUs. Our current infrastructure d...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted