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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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Stop words should not impact phrases in Discovery Query Language

WDS enables you to define your own set of stop words. We recently noticed that the stop words are removed from searches even when using phrases with the Discovery Language syntax. For example if we search for the phrase "we the people" and we and ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

SQL Engine enhancement to support "Db2 mode" SQL syntax rules

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) In DVM, SQL syntax rules are based on ANSI-92 standard, not on Db2 for z/OS rules, even in the case where DVM virtual table is defined on Db2 for z/OS table....
almost 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TO_MULTI_BYTE (oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT (oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DENSE_RANK FIRST/LAST (Oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

connect_by_iscycle in Oracle

When we migrate from oracle application, the connect_by_iscycle is very difficult to implement at Db2 .
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate aware joins in FM

Hi for many years I have been hoping for a feature in framework manager to allow 'aggregate aware' joins in the model. This feature is in SAP IDT tool and let's you choose to substitute the join toto fact table based on aggregate level, e.g regula...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fully implement Cognos person namespace

Hi, in Cognos 11 the fast install includes an ldap and the admin gui works with this namespace to allow creating users etc. Please fully implement this as it's own install option and improve support for tenant features. Being able to manage users ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schema's name should not be mandatory in Cube Designer just like in Framework Manager

We have different database schema's name in each environment such as DEV_Cognos, UAT_Cognos and PROD1_Cognos and Prod2_Cognos. In the cube designer, we have to define the schema's name otherwise an error will be returned. Therefore promoting from ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to Refresh data from master to the application instance

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration