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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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Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PAW - Allow option to set cube view as read only for all users

I kindly request you to enable a configuration option in PAW to set a view as read-only for all users. Below is my use case - As a developer, I often set up various views in a book for reporting purposes and prefer to prevent users from updating d...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace, the IBM documentation is ve...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adjusting the placement position of standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow Informix to accept Non PAM aware clients to connect when using PAM PASSWORD mode

Standard Informix Authentication on unix will perform a getpwnam() call to retrieve the encrypted shadow password from the OS, it will then compare an encrypted version of the password supplied by the client against this, and if they match, authen...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

simplified code path for RI checking

We had an interesting discussion with the development team about this. As I already mentioned, the RI code path is quite different than the R-scan which may use one or more predicates to evaluate the qualifying rows. The main module that is drivin...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Custom Properties API

Currently, the API used to grab custom properties, GET /v2/asset_types, is not sufficient. If you pass parameter custom_attributes=true and permits_decorators= false, then it will retrieve all custom properties, but we cannot filter by those which...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Under review