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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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Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
30 days ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Separate offerings for Q rep and CDC instead of bundle

From a product patch/maintenance standpoint, the management of these 2 products has been difficult because they both resolve to one product name. But each product has their own maintenance fixes, separate SMP zones, and separate patch scheduling i...

Screen scroll control when Waton is providing an answer

Sometimes, Watson's answers are very long. It will be extremely useful to be able to control de screen scroll display so the user could read the early responses from Watson's answers. Right now, if Watson is generating a very long answer and I wan...
2 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Partition tasks for resource sharing

Group the task for resource sharing. The scope can be for PythonWrapper only
2 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Dynamic setting max limit at client site for PythonWrapper

Dynamic setting max slot at client level for PythonWrapper. Curently, can only set with profile
2 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Impact Diagram in PAW

Impact diagram was very valuable for us from the metric studio days for us to show how a bad metric influences the other ones. Now that the performance modeler is going to be deprecated, the lack of availability of the impact diagram affects the v...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Under review

Enable TAC oracle funtion on Stored Procedure stage

Currently, DataStage cannot support TAC Function on STP Stage version 11.7.1.x because the customer is using Oracle resource and has enabled TAC function. After testing and running, it was found that the problem occurred at Stored Procedure stage....
3 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
9 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted