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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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Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Ask Tableau to support connectivity with Netezza Performance Server for AWS

- Why is it useful?If Tableau supports connectivity with Netezza Performance Server (NPS) for AWS, Tableau users can connect to NPS by using Tableau connector. According to below Tableau document, NPS is not supported. PDA (old Netezza) is support...
6 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Increase limitation of Head file system

Hello Team, Currently we have limitation of head file system and we are sometimes having free space issues and we are manually getting the FODC dumps deleted for freeing up the space. Can we remove the limitation and increase the head file system ...
6 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Under review

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
12 months ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Kafka integration

customer works with Kafka streaming
almost 2 years ago in Databand / Integration 0 Future consideration

Permit query concurrency in conjunction with master detail relationships

We configured concurrent query execution in development and then set up the RSVP trace to confirm it is working for some reports but not others. In particular it doesn't seem to work for a report which uses a master query for the page set with sev...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable tenant users see activities related with public content

In admin console, view activities, currently tenant users will be able to see all activities related with public content even tenant users have only execute/traverse capability. The schedule/activities view should be filtered by tenant ID.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration