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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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Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Future consideration

Organize Application and Plan

Currently in the section Application and Plan is not possible to create folders to organize applications as it's possible to do in Reports and Analysis This is not allowing a clean and easy structure for users when multiple access/markets requires...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Please add buffering for LOBs

Please add buffering for LOBs
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Types / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Module - Possibility to join DC, PA cube, File and FM sources

Possibility create joins in Data module between different type of data sources. E.g. it is not possible to join two dynamic cubes on the fly or enrich Cube data with excel or to combine Planning analytics data to Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Allow Bufferpool Min_lru_dirty and Max_lru_dirty Threshold values to be altered dynamically

onparams -b can be used to add a new bufferpool and AUTO_LRU_TUNING are available on informix server but first only adds a bufferpool of a new page size and the latter only kicks in if some foreground writes occur on a server which ideally is neve...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release