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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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Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable Metadata Enrichment Data Quality output table support across similar connection types

Currently, certain connectors, such as 'PostgreSQL', support the Data Quality output table, while others with similar functionality—such as 'Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL'—do not. Although these connectors handle comparable data fields and structures,...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Drive Explorer - Ability to set preferred date display

In Drive Explorer the current date is displayed as mm/dd/yyyy, however it would be preferable if this was able to be displayed in your preferred format. Drive already displays information in local date and time zone, however not the format.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Pipeline Explicit Compile Option on GUI

Pipeline Compilation Option (Similar to 11.7) It's observed that there's no explicit Compile option for Pipeline (Sequencer). It helps to check the changes made to the stages are correct and compiled, before running the job. On 11.7 - it allows to...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

After PIT Recovery the RTS values are restored

Today some RTS statistics is lost after PIT Recovery. These statistics is necessary for other utilites like REORG, REBUILD or CHECK to calculate e.g. the correct SORTWKxx data set sizes. As we have very large objects, this behaviour lead to the co...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review