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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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The incremental Import option is not available for GCP BigQuery connection for MDI

We need incremental import option for GCP Big Query connection for MDI's.
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Request to have Range Sort on a Custom Attribute Value

As per the update from the IBM Support Team, currently, the Range sort is not supported on the Custom Attributes, Custom attribute values are indexed as strings, not numbers/dates. Our Dev Team are considering these as part of their Development Ac...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Improve JDBC’s SQLException Error codes

We have observed that, when we get an SQL Exception caused by different situations related to client-server communication issues, we always get an ErrorCode = 0 (((SQLException)sqle).getErrorCode()) For example, in case we have an open connection ...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add support for system versioned tables

This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
6 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration