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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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watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage

watsonx code assistant to allow generating Next-Gen IBM DataStage code from the standalone IBM DataStage, similar to the capability of generating java code from cobol.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Allow clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the DISPLAY LOG COMMAND to show if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group.

This command would be useful to allow DB2 SYSPROGS/DBAs to see if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group. This would allow the REMOVAL PENDING...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User should be able to use not only technical meta but also business terms which are assigned to technical terms or which are described in order to find some fields/columns when they create ETL jobs or dashboards

This is for function enhancement request, not for bug fix request, but one of my customer requests bellow function enhancement strongly. [request detail] Once User run asset discovery so as to assign business meta against technical asset such as t...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Commit data from PAfE (quick Report) from all the sheets at one time (Provided that a workbook contains more sheets)

Commit data from PAfE (quick Report) from all the sheets at one time (Provided that a workbook contains more sheets)
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automated Copy forward opening balances

Following on the automation theme. Users have requested an automated copy forward opening balances feature
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration