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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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Include latest Java version for DB2 in interim Fixes and special builds

DB2 special builds that address security vulnerabilities do not include the latest available Java version for DB2. If you update Java for DB2 to the latest available version on FixCentral and later apply a special build, Java is replaced with an o...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Master Data Explorer UI should provide entity count pre-search no matter the version

It gives any data consumer a glimpse into the entity count ahead, instead of the NaN count that we see today in 4.8.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Queued execution of ACCEl_COLLECT_TABLE_STATISTICS

We run a data warehouse application that runs very complex queries on IDAA. With several of these queries, we had and still have performance problems. IBM IDAA support suggested to run ACCEl_COLLECT_TABLE_STATISTICS to improve their performance, a...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance Pie Chart with Additional Dimension\Hierarchy Level to Support Sunburst Chart effect

I would like to propose an enhancement to the existing Pie Chart functionality in PAW. Currently, the Pie Chart supports visualization for a single dimension, which limits its ability to display hierarchical data effectively. I request an enhancem...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enable/Disable SuppressZero for All Widgets on a Tab

Currently, when working with a page on a book containing multiple widgets (such as cube views and charts), enabling or disabling the SuppressZero option needs to be performed individually for each widget. I propose adding an option to enable or di...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted