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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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Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Increase document size limit for WD

Currently maximum document size, which can be processed by WD for CP4D is 32Mb. It is very small size limit considering any document which may have embedded images can be much larger. Even WEX limits were higher (up to 128Mb for WEX AC). Please co...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Double-click cube in PAW and PAx to open Default view

Double-clicking a cube in both PAx and PAW should open the Default view (if one exists). This was standard functionality in all previous versions of TM1 and is expected by experienced users. This has a major impact on the adoption of the product. ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Bring "Notes" information in column details

Bring "Notes" information in column details for a column imported from a physical data model.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

filter specific IDAA messages from being delivered to DB2.

All IDAA messages, once delivered to DB2, are wrapped in a DSNX881I message ID and displayed within DB2 and on the z/OS logs. In our case there was a VERY lengthy message of type /W3005/ which is delivered to us no less than 15 times a day for eac...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Extend Db2 Message monitoring IFCID 197 to include information about message tokens

Our shop is using ITM Situation management to heavily automate processing/notification for our customers and thus minimize the use of custom logic to be maintained (specific REXX programs etc.) . One feature that we leverage is the OMEGAMON for Db...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

quick link for SSO

Quick link to choose the default SSO as login method. We avoid process of choosing the method (admin,LDAP or SSO) and clicking blue button "LogIn" to have automatic login via SSO.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Planned for future release