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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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Implement multiple warnings prior to altering the database schema in the system setup section. Additionally, provide the capability to revert to the previous database schema, enabling users to retrieve prior evaluations.

Utility: The significance lies in the fact that modifying the schema currently results in the loss of all prior evaluations, without an option for retrieval. This enhancement aims to safeguard time and projects from potential loss, particularly in...
6 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted
115 VOTE

Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
10 months ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Under review

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Apply number format when editing a cell in PAW

We are using the german number format ("." as thousand separator and "," as decimal separator) in PAW. The format works fine for non-selected cells, but after a doubleklick into a cell the cell value is displayed with the default format (point as ...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Make shadowing of objects a native function

In other tools like PowerPoint and Power BI, shadowing of objects is a native feature. Can you make this a native feature for Workspace. Currently, we can do shadowing by importing it as an image, but from a maintenance perspective, layering of th...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL CDC Client should support array fields

Array fields in the PostgreSQL CDC Client are unsupported. They are returned as strings or not at all depending on the configuration due to unsupported data types. When we add [] after any data type definition: i.e. INT -> INT[] means it's now ...
24 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enhancement request - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector

Hi IBM team, Kindly find an enhancement request for - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector Problem: Using IBM Cloud Pak for Data –Redshift Connector (with WRITE MODE=LAOD), empty source tables are not getting loaded to target AWS-Redshift ....
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Support for Kafka Transformer-provided Library for Spark 3.5

The Kafka Transformer version 5.8 library is built against Spark 3.4.1. Could we please have a Kafka library compatible with Spark 3.5.0 to work with EMR 7.x?
24 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review