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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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Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Allow for burst report test sending to see the outputs that would be generated

Allow users to essentially test the outputs of a burst report without actually sending anything to the recipients. For example - see the individual excel files that would go to a given email address, but send to the person testing, not the recipie...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Oracle RDS as a source for CDC (to send data to ANY CDC target)

For AWS Oracle RDS, we do not have access for the OS so we dont have access to the redo/archive logs. We need CDC repluication tool be capable to read the Oracle transaction from RDS oracle as a source and replicate, in our case the target will be...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Ability to Edit/Modify PAW Calculations

When creating a custom calculation in PAW or adding a single number into the report ("Add to sheet"), it is not possible to view the logic / query nor to modify it. It would be helpful to be able to view and modify calculations and queries of sing...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Missing sparse lookup for Postgres Connector Stage on DataStage on CP4D.

Missing sparse lookup for Postgres Connector Stage on DataStage on CP4D.
9 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Updating Existing Project with specific assets from another project thorough UI

Updating Existing Project with specific assets from another project thorough UI. Business users works might need to promote assets from TEST to Production Env . Example : New DQR Rule in TEST ENV and promote to production Env instead of exporting ...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review