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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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Ability to re-create views and procedures without dependent objects being dropped

Some objects in a database often depend on other. As an example, if there is a view, another view can be built upon it.Private and public synonyms can be created for those views, and permissions given to various users on those views.If the first v...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Have watsonx have support for translation

Have specialized models around language translation for a variety of languages.
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automated Data Mapping for RDM Data Imports

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM requires manual mapping of data elements to their corresponding column names and data types when importing data from files like CSV, XML, or JSON. This can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for dat...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated Reference Data Cleanup and Versioning Maintenance

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC creates a new version for each updated dataset, leading to the accumulation of older versions. There is no built-in mechanism to automatically purge older versions or retain only a specific number of recent versio...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

GIT Integration for Reference Data Management (Source Control Tool)

Problem Statement: Currently, managing code related to Reference Data MAPs, SETs, RD-Types, and small static Reference Data in IKC involves manual code copying across environments, leading to version control challenges and potential deployment inc...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Alerts for DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError at the object level

We would like to see if it would be possible to get alerts at the object level for the event types DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError. Right now, this is possible to do for getpage activity which is very helpful. A workaround we wou...
11 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a spe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration