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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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get user license checkouts from RTM graphs

Right now, we can only see current license checkouts in RTM. can we implement a feature in RTM that gives user license checkouts in a specific period of time, 30min from license usage graphs? I think we already have this enabled for host graphs. I...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Allow REPAIR CATALOG on indexes to reset version numbers

In Db2 Cloning Tool, index version mismatches cause indexes to be rebuilt on the target rather than using the physical copy. Some of these indexes are very large. Corrective measures would be to drop and recreate the index on the source which woul...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

NodeAgent process suspends CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI

Product: InfoSphere DataStage 11.5 OS: Linux Middleware: DB2 V11.1 When the customer tried to create catalogs with CATALOG DCS DATABASE in DB2 CLI. the command froze. After investigation, the process of NodeAgent causeed the freeze. As a work-...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Optim 11.3 Support for MarkLogic data source for both Data Privacy and Data Archiving

Support for MarkLogic data source within Optim 11.3 for Windows
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Not under consideration

Need semi-join capability in BigSQL

In migrating from Hive QL to BigSQL, Sprint has found that their user community used the Hive semi-join function. To minimize the rewriting required, BigSQL support of semi-join is requested.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN STMTCACHE CACHED_TS(timestamp-value)

Currently, an EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL is the option to externalize the (entire) content of the DSC (dynamic statement cache) into DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE. For several reasons, we're using a DSC "history" table. Periodically, we extract the DSC, a...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add list for measures in dashboard

We would like to drag multiple measures in the layout and have a list to filter the content like sales units, forecasted units,....so that users can select which one to use in chart.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration