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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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Writing Iceberg data format working with specific catalog (for example Dremio)

Hi Using CPD Datastage tool, we can write a data in Iceberg format using Generic S3 component. But we want to write this iceberg format data that we wrote to a Storage volume to a desired catalog (Hive, Nessie, etc.). In this transfer, we cannot s...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Unable to Rename a Pipleline as same as Datastage Flow - SAVE AS option not available

While trying to take a backp/copy of a datastage flow/parallel job, we are able to change the name of the job without opening the actual job(Snapshot1). But when we try to do the same for Pipeline, the job name is suffixed with "_copy_1" by defaul...
13 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Published terms under category can be filtered, but the drafts can not - please add similar filtering functionality to drafts also

We have cases where there are going to be a lot of drafts, so filtering on the drafts is just as useful to us as of the published ones. In the screenshot you can see that filters exist for published governance artifacts. But if one chooses the "Dr...
25 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Planned for future release

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review
241 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration