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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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Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Allow the Schema Generator to be able to use Complex Data Types for Parquet and Avro

The schema generator currently is only able to generate basic schema. For example a map with mixed data types is considered complex and will cause an error: { "answers":{ "field1": "somestring", "field2": 123 } } SCHEMA_GEN_0007 - Map '/answer...
12 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
2 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
3 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson API Toolkit 0 Submitted

Enable larger limit or 'more' functionality for code search within modeling workbench

When searching for a specific string in processes we are looking to verify that all results will be shown or enabled in PAW, for example we use a common set of code within all of our processes. The current limitation does not enable us to see that...
29 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
4 months ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Mac users unable to open and edit MS Office files directly from Openpages

Some of our OpenPages users who are using MAC systems have raised concerns over being unable to view and edit MS office files directly from OpenPages like how its available on PC. It will be handy for users to have this feature available in Mac as...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review
507 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration