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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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Provide for Custom Attributes via SAML Authentication

Some customers that need SSO for Cognos Analytics in the Cloud are using SAML as an interim. However, they also need to have the ability to configure custom attributes for authentication.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore Critical Files [only]

In case of a mistakenly deletion of files in/below the instance home directory of Db2 it should be possible to restore [only] these files/directories etc. At the moment if files/directories are mistakenly deleted, a complete database restore would...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

"Download in progress" notification when exporting websheets from PAW

When a user opens an Excel websheet that is hosted on Planning Analytics Workspace, they have an option to export the sheet to Excel. Currently, there is no notification or indication that the download has started or is in progress. For a user on ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need API to get the delta changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc

Need API to get the delta-changed information for data assets, Government artifacts, etc Please refer to the SF TS015464391 for detailed information
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Simplify Alter

In Db2 z/OS version 10 Pending Alters/Deferred Alters were introduced. Deferred Alters are not compatible with most Immediate Alters. Deferred Alters need materializing REORG before immediate Alter, or the Immediate Alter has to be run before D...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock an account for input in the account structure.

We would like the option to lock an account for input or import of data directly in the account structure. Account develops over time. Some accounts might not be valid to use over time. It might not be possible to merge these accounts, include the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Improve readahead performance statistic reporting

Since the improved readahead code was established, onstat -p and the associated SMI tables no longer report all readahead pages nor all usage of those pages so that it is impossible to monitor the efficiency of readahead and so be able to determin...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow storage expansion and extension during an archive

Need the ability to use onspaces, onparams, & API functions to manage storage allocation while an archive is executing. This is especially true with auto-extension of chunks and auto-expanding dbspaces by adding chunks automatically from the s...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration