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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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Enable the possibilities to a Cognos Expert to add new Vendor Specific Function entry for not supported database (eg. Redshift)

The purpose of Cognos is to allow each user not to know the language of the Database used, lacking the list of functions into the Expression Definition for some databases, the goal of the product fails. users are not helped to understand what are ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

WMLA EDT: Customization, Minimal Example & Documentation

Client asks how to use and customize the elastic distributed training (EDT) feature of WML-A. They explicitly complained about the lack of a detailed documentation (being aware of WMLA/Spectrum Conductor documentation in the knowledge center &...
almost 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Add an ability to start a q subscription via MODIFY on the Capture started task

Currently Q Capture subscriptions can be interacted with either via MODIFY command invoked on a Q Capture started task, or SQL insert statements executed on table IBMQREP_SIGNAL. For many customers, executing a MODIFY command to perform an action ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Future consideration

Forward, without local processing, bsub options to remote clusters

In multi-cluster scenarios, there should be no expectation that all the clusters are configured the same and/or support the same resources, slas, architectures, etc. Currently, when launching jobs with -sla, -m, and other options, the local schedu...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Auto-complete and Function picker for MDX in PAW/PAfE set editor

MDX in the set editor could be greatly enhanced by having auto-complete and a function picker like rules and TI. Edit 2022-06-29: Ideally possible parameters to be shown as well as information just like TI does in PAW 2.0.77. Functionality should ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

add doopl in the CPLEX distribution

relying on docplex python API got much easier since docplex was included in the CPLEX product. doopl which is a python package that allows to call OPL model from python code can be download from https://pypi.org/project/doopl/ but having doopl in ...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration