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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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Excel file format should be supported as source data in the ETL project.

Excel file format should be supported as source data in the ETL project.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
10 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance DSNACCOX

Based on the recommendations from the recent Best Practices webcast, I believe that DSNACCOX should be enhanced to reflect these recommendations. Rules to trigger reorgs For indexes: Pseudo-deletedentries: REORGPSEUDODELETES/TOTALENTRIES > 5% I...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

filter the items in the Data Catalog by the governance artifacts assigned to it

Wants the ability to filter the items in the Data Catalog by the governance artifacts assigned to it. Currently only able to filter by 'Asset Type', 'Connection Source' and 'Tags'. We want to filter by 'Classification' assigned to be able to see t...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Find query subjects/items

System: Cognos Analytics 11.0.x In Dashboarding there is a Find bar allowing the user to search for a specific keyword in query subjects (tables) and query items (columns) in a data module. This feature should be included in Reporting, allowing th...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Backup PAW books

One of our highly valued customers, Aer Lingus, have a planning analytics in the cloud solution about to go live with phase 1 of the solution. This is a very large project with at least 45 users. On PAW, there are nearly 60 books currently. This ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
almost 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists