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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Synchronize end user scrolling in multiple cubeviews in a PAW book when scrolling sycnronized cubeviews with activated gestures

If there are several synchronized cubeviews and an end user is scrolling down, all cubeviews should be scrolling down in parallel
29 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Redshift Copy from S3 Fails with 'AVRO string is broken' Error in 'Load' Write Mode"

When using the Redshift connector with 'Load' write mode, the copy operation from S3 to Redshift fails with an 'AVRO string is broken' error when there are no records. We need the process to complete successfully without writing any data.
30 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow ability to download multiple files simultaneously in Drive Explorer

Download link is not available when selecting > 1 file. I saw one other enhancement request on the same topic (Drive Explorer), but is asking for a different solution (file view/open without down loading). That solution request is kbetter. Howe...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Upload files to Risk Lists with conditions for each record

When uploading a file into a Risk List, you can only specify the input attribute value. A comment and a label can be included but it applies to the entire list. We would like to be able to upload a comma delimited file to include all attributes in...
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

CP4D - Cloudera Impala Connector - Truststore/SSL

In Legacy DataStage, we use connect to Hive/Impala using a cacerts which is defined that sever level. we just pass the location of the cacerts and datastage is intelligent enough to use that cacerts and establish the connectivity. But in CP4D we d...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Enhancing Data Presentation in Excel for Planning Analytics

Excel remains the favored method for consuming data from Planning Analytics. However, users are not entirely satisfied with the presentation options of the Exploration Report, Quick Report, and the new Universal Report. They wish to display indivi...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
8 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration