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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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JOIN keys in JOIN stage should be able to be used even if each fields/columns have different names in each.

When users use Join stage for TableA and TableB, if each join keys have different column name (for example, each join key’s column names are col1a in Table A and col1b in Table B), it goes to error. Our customer strongly requests us to improve so ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Query 1 Functionality already exists

Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Certification of Informix ESQL/Cobol on RedHat Linux 7.2

ESQL/COBOL has not been updated for many years now, but the OS is getting updates regularly. Need ESQL/COBOL to be certified on RedHat Linux as our applications are migrating to this version on Linux soon. Appreciate if you can expedite the certif...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Planned for future release

Name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically

I want to name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically. The use case is that I have a tab which shows current year data, one for 5 year data and one for 10 year data. I can name them in line with that but it would be better if they were named 2020, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for Export/Migration of TFUI Dashboard Configuration

Currently, all dashboard information comes with profile exports. For capturing OOTB enhancements, pre-made dashboards from partners, and partial profile migrations. Also, being able to migrate user created wigdets individually.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Manta DBT Support as part of CPD IKC

State Farm is using DBT internally and we are currently working on a CPD POC with IBM DV and IKC. They are looking for a complete data fabric solution to connect to all of their data sources. There are questions on IBM's Semantic Layer solution an...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Duplicate Related Values Error Handling

When importing multi-related values into an RDS via a csv and there's a duplicate on one row the import bombs out with the error and no related values are imported after that point, even the correct ones. Instead of an error, it would be helpful i...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
5 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review