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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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239 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.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

PAW - add authentication support by username/password to git repository

Hi, Currently, only authentication by SSH key is possible for pushing/getting TM1 objects inside a git repository. An authentication by username/password should be available too. Some companies, inside Github, disable the possibility to use SSH ke...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
4 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted
260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
7 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

Semantic Enrichment SaaS : Support of Spanish Language

My customer is asking for support of Spanish Language, because English doesn't works for them.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

CP4D - Need Super Operator Role for Cloud pak for Data (DataStage) Projects

We need a Super Operator role in CP4D (DataStage) projects which is equivalent to Legacy DataStage role. Please find the following tasks which Super Operator can perform. Cloud Pak for Data Super Operator (DataStage) Can perform the following task...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release