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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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Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

As a Business Analyst, I would like to be able to save my DataSet via Cloud connexion

To have a scalable native storage of dataset, I would like to be able to set as storage target the Cloud connexion defined for the IBM Cognos Analytics platform If the data files are in parquet format, it would be ideal
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Update DataSource connection details via a config file or DB sql

Our install is on WINOS and consider 'on-prem' type.we migrate our prod Cognos to lower non-prod by way of Oracle DB DMP export and then Import that into our target Nonprod env Cognos db.we have steps sql steps and UI operations to cull and remove...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Satellite Connector agent to be able to connect to 2 or more connectors

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
7 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted