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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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Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
3 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

simplified code path for RI checking

We had an interesting discussion with the development team about this. As I already mentioned, the RI code path is quite different than the R-scan which may use one or more predicates to evaluate the qualifying rows. The main module that is drivin...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

In Cognos Administration, add an additional entry called 'Subscriptions'

In the Administration Console, Status tab, add an additional entry (for example, below Calendars) called 'Subscriptions'. Display the list of reports with subscriptions (like thecalendars).In the properties of a report, provide the following infor...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Default Sort Order in PAW

We are trying to set the default sort order to Alphabetic (A-Z) in PAW for the assets within the folder. But every time we log off and login it defaults back to last modified. There should be a config setting included to sort the workbooks in an a...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Language of PAX interface

PAX plugin takes the setting from operating system. In my client's company, users in Germany have by default their Windows Display Language set to German and they cannot change it as they don't have administration access to their laptops. So then,...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide Support for Office 365 with Cognos applications

Request Office 365 be supported as an export target for BI Server reports and Viewer for Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Analysis for Excel.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to adjust attributes of users via REST API such as the tenant-id

With use of the REST API we create users in our multi tenant environment to automate the onboarding of new customers and new users. While doing this we would like to assign a user directly to the correct tenant. We experience that adding the tenan...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add session-level reset for monitoring metrics in the MON_GET* table functions

There is no way to reset the metrics reported in the MON_GET* table functions. Please add functionality for resetting these at the session level, much like "RESET MONITOR" does for snapshot monitoring. Yes, there are a dozen ways to code this your...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration