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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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Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Allow Table in Cognos dashboard to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

Hey Team! In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is present. However, if there is no data available, the table is left blank and only displays the headers, which is not a user-friendly view....
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

User should be created automatically from connected LDAP group and not after the first login

LDAP connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Needs more information

XTREAM needs DMSHOWLOGDEPENDENCY

Before archiving the logs using the dmshowlogdependency tool to determine is it ok to archive the logs if idr-cdc is completed with the logs are is it still required. We need this urgently for the client NTRS
2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Snowflake Bulk not able to read from read-only database due to the temporary file format.

When Snowflake Bulk stage tries to read from a read-only database, it fails with the message: "Could not create a temporary file format (SNOWFLAKE_47)" due to the lack of permissions to create the file format object in the source database. This is...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
over 2 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Offer the same options for shortcut like for report (for example Create report view)

In Cognos 10.2 you have option like Create report view, Edit report, ... directly for shortcut. Now in Cognos 11 this options are available only for report itself.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, ability to formulate and send emails

Add ability in 4GL to create a formatted email and send to selected recipients.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted