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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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metadata ddl change information in the SMP/e HOLD and offer new utility similar to Db2z CATMAINT

Whenever new db2zAI fix introduces metadata catalog changes. customer is trying to make sure their next upgrade/maintenance rollout would take backup and fallback procedures into account Customer suggests Db2zAI upgrade/maintenance SMP/e deliverab...
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Use Measure String Elements grouping (group by for numeric data) in List, Cross Tabs, Charts PA as Source data

While using Planning Analytics Cube as source over REST API call, if we have a measure dimension with string elements or picklist elements these elements can also should be used as one of the virtual dimension to view the cube measure numeric elem...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, t...
almost 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for SQL, DDL, DML syntax checking

Add enhancement to syntax check SQL, DDL, DML before execution. Recently attended presentation of Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS and it has a 'Smart Editor' which performed these checks. I asked about it and was told it is using macros from the DB...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Nonlinear solver for CPLEX

Add nonlinear optimization capability to CPLEX. Many real-life models are nonlinear by nature. CPLEX solver requires a linear model to work. A good nonlinear solver can often times overperform a linearized form of a real-life model. Having a nonli...
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

Map dictionaries to subtypes and provide evaluation stats for subtypes

Currently, only being able to map dictionaries to entity types makes bootstrapping projects with subtypes very difficult. It also eliminates a major way to improve recall. Additionally, not being able to see stats at the subtype level makes it alm...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

Email notification: Add an option "on who should be notified when a report fails and also to include the report execution status like Success/Fail in the notification"

Currently, we don't get any notification when a report (either scheduled or non scheduled report like for batch mode report execution) fails so it should be good if we can have "add an option on who should be notified when a report fails for the e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create and maintain Metric cubes from Workspace

It was mentioned on the Designing Workspace UIs in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace event on 29/10/2020 that the Metric chart will be added back into workspace after it was removed for the Cognos Analytics charting engine. If Metrics are coming ba...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Enhance automatic SORTHEAP management by fixing the defined base value as the minimum for STMM

As we had an issue with STMM reducing the SORTHEAP too much during lower load on the database, we would like to see the defined base value for the sortheap treated as the minimum value, that STMM would not reduce the sortheap below that value if t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Before/After SQL mentioned in oracle connector is not displaying in the job log

In oracle connector, if we have mentioned any SQL query in before/After SQL, that mentioned query is not displaying in the job log instead its showing like the query has been executed. It will be helpful if we see the actual query in the job log. ...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted