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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Allow compiled versions of a flow/job to be migrated to a target DataStage Environment in NextGen

After a flow/job is moved from QA to PROD, it must currently be recompiled to work. This is not allowed in most production environments as it forces a change in the target environment.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Show meaningful error message when a RStudio pod can not be started because the system cannot request the needed resources

As a Data Scientist I frequently need to start runtime environments. Often these are small enough and they quite naturally fit the available resources. Sometimes however, there is a very large environment needed. Therefore I would like to see an m...
about 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Delivered

Custom URL pass Locale()

In cognos 11.X you can not pass the locale by using run.outputLocale through a URL no more. Support advised to open a RFE
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow schedules to be edited from upcoming activities admin view.

From the Cognos Analytics Administration portal the user should be able to select upcoming schedules. From the resulting list the user should be able to edit the schedule with normal schedule management functions as allowed by the capabilities ass...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

More consistent handling of .csv data when manually duplicating/creating scenarios

Problem statement/pain points: When creating a new scenario via duplicating an existing one manually (not using Python code), there appear to be currently two ways to make a change to input data in a table of the new scenario: 1) change data direc...

Ability to add/remove rows in "Input Data" tables in Model Builder

Use case: I duplicate a scenario in the "Scenarios" panel. The scenario I'd like to test involves adding/removing one data point, e.g. adding a new machine in the predictive maintenance model or taking that machine out of service by removing it. ...

Allow partial indexes in all editions

IDS 14.10 contains this important new feature: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G_14.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_partial_index.htm "Partial indexes avoid indexing common values. As the query searching for a common value wil...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Filtering navigational tree in PAW

Filtering navigational tree in PAW would help users in quicker menu navigation - they could find the desired objects without cumbersome browsing the whole tree. User experience would benefit a lot with this solution
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Synchronise Different Dimensions with the same elements

When using 2 different cubes with different dimensions, allow to select one from teh other in PAW. Example: 2 cubes one with year the other with months > If I select year in year dimension, month is showing the same year.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Option to dictate behaviour regarding deadlock victim selected on deadlocks involving DDL ALTERs

In true 24*7 production environments there is an increasing expectation that simple(on the face of it) DDL changes should be able to break-in concurrent with application workload. In the case of high-arrival rate transactions even at the quietest ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered