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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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Spark Version 3.4.* for Conductor to utilize newer version of Pandas with Spark Functionality

In Spark 3.3.1, Pandas is unable to use 'iteritems'. This Issue is resolved in Jira but only for Spark 3.4. We would greatly benefit from Spark 3.4 on Spectrum Conductor and Pandas compatibility.
4 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

A path to deploy bulk deletes without the strain stemming from entity composition rebalancing.

In our current bulk delete of a system (~144M across 4 record types), the TPS is very low as the process requires a constant kicking off of the match process, meaning that the re-balancing is taking a large portion of the compute. This seemingly i...
4 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Support LIMIT clause in Common Table Expressions

Using LIMIT clause in a CTE gives a syntax error (with IDS 14.10.FC10) sf@toro (master):~/genero/devel/dbsync/dbsync$ cat x.sql WITH recent_rows AS (SELECT log_ordinal FROM dbsync_log WHERE log_table_name = 'stkitem' ORDER BY log_ordinal DESC LIMI...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Request for improvement in IRLM during crash of DB2

Last weekend, we had the incident described in cases TS015424759 and TS015422058 in which an HPU job that went out of memory while having a latch holded causing DB2 outage. This caused a major business impact because the IRLM did not crash and lef...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

DB(...) and [...] reference builder to be added to PAW

In architect/perspectives when you write rules, you have the ability to click the DB(...) or [...] to build references to other cubes or areas within the current cube. In PAW, there does not seem to be a function to assist in building references b...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Alters to objects that require reorg to material should be put into advisory reorg, such as PCTFREE

If an alter is done to a TS to PCTFREE and a REORG is not run, then the catalog is updated but the change is not materialized. This results in the DBA thinking it was done, but it really wasn;t.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

crosstab freeze options

I am using crosstab a my report. Currently we can freeze column header on report by right clicking on output and click on Freeze Column & Row headings option. However requirement from user is that they want to have both freezed column and Row ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists