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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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Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Localization support for Planning Analytics Workspace content

To translate cube, dimension and element names in Planning Analytics, it is possible to use the captions and language locale codes. For example, in PAW, the web interface and cube, dimension and element names are then displayed in the selected bro...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Enable use of sub-select in datamodule security filters

At this moment, version 12.0.3, it is not possible to use a sub-select in a security filter. We get syntax errors when we try to use a sub-select, but the syntax proves to be correct when used in native SQL. We need sub-selects to select from a se...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

PAW Applications - Manage security through PAW groups

Hi Team, It would be nice to manage security to Applications using the PAW Groups like we do with Folders/Books. At the moment it is possible to configure access to the applications for specific users only.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

removing project asset via ibm-watson-studio-lib for Python

https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/ws-lib-python.html?context=cpdaas The ibm-watson-studio-lib library for Python provides access to assets. Asset file can be created via wslib. However, there is no project API or wsl...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Save GitHub API Keys to }ElementAttributes_}Clients

The GitHub repository connections from PAW Workbench are great. To improve the user experience, it would be great if the private key, public key and passphrase for a particular user can be stored, so that we do not need to manually enter them ever...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
23 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted