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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
28 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Generalized code assistant RAG use case trainable for multiple languages

Multiple IBM clients have approached me with a request to have a generalized watsonx Code Assistant that combines the existing Granite-code models with a RAG partner use case. Ability to fine tune a granite-code model such that it has the latest i...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
30 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Submitted

Manta Data Lineage: Support LDAP/AD Authentication for Redshift Connections

The current version of Manta only supports local account authentication for Redshift connection but does not support Azure AD authentication. Requesting that Manta supports the ability to authenticate Redshift connections with AD/LDAP users.
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

De-couple view window from Excel-sheet

When one opens a view in PAfE, it stays in the front, even when one clicks beside into an Excel cell. One has to minimize the window actively to pull the Excel-sheet to the front. The normal Windows behavior for overlapping windows is, that the on...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted