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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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DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale as a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

Allow Transformer To Run In 64-Bit Mode

Allow transformer to run using 64-bit dispatchers. Note that this not a requirement for transformer to take advantage of any extended functionality 64-bit might entail. We simply want transformer to run within a Cognos Analytics environment having...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extension Output Node for Python with Graph Output tab like R

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the stream pr...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Planned for future release

No Web server Monitoring for Planning Analytics

We don't have visibility about Web Servers performance, and it would be good to have more information about memory consumption (at least).
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Calculations for storing in forms in Controller web

Example: It would be great to have forms where you kan mix different actualities, and have calculations which makes the summation stored in the db. For example in the budget-process when you define forms where you get AC (YTD) in the first column ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include Prefetch wait time Metrics in monreport.dbsummary() stored procedure

Prefetch wait time numbers are a bit similar to FCM in the sense that they can be really high even in a normal system. Prefetch wait time doesn’t start until an agent attempts to read a page that has already been queued for prefetch – then the clo...
4 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted

Support of external OS authentication in Oracle optimized connector

None of the Oracle connectors in Cloud Pak for Data supports external OS authentication whereas IIS did support it. As we know from legacy that external OS authentication method requires DataStage user (like dsadm) to be created in Oracle DB, to a...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Bulk rename for the record names

Once records are created, there may be an option to change the name of the record, however there is no method to do this in Bulk. For example, If we have created 3 risks with the name BSL_RSK_001, BSL_RSK_002 & BSL_RSK_003, there is no bulk or...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review