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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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Are sparse files supported by Db2

During a Restore of sparse files - where a large file is allocated, but is not fully created physically (preparation and population of many of the underlying blocks is deferred until they are needed)
over 4 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

HPU V5.1 - Keep the connection in TSO / DB2 CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF instead of ODBC/RRSAF (the same as HPU V4.3 version) RFE 123074

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123074 Communication switches to ODBC / RRSAF instead of DB2CALL. Our environment has the 'Exit' DSN3@ATH (Conections = TSO / DB2CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF) which changes t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to translate document language on ingestion

This will provide the capability to select the language that the user wants in the index. Since the documents can be split/ retained as is in WDS and has the full text, there should be an out of the box integration with language translator to tran...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Relocate the BQ connector connection information from bottom of log to top of log

Currently, when using the BQ connector in DataStage On-Prem, the connection information used to connect to the GOOGLE BQ environment, including the transaction ID is placed in the log at the end of the job process. It would be more helpful to have...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Delete across multiple cells with rules

Currently in a PA cube view if you try and delete multiple cells but any of those cells are rule calculated the delete fails. I would like to be able to select an entire row of cells and hit delete and have it clear out any data from cells that we...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prestart Service with SlotToTaskRatio different than 1

To improve processing time
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Workflow Functionality to query, filter, and associate UNRELATED objects.

Give workflows the ability to filter on, query, or associate unrelated objects. To allow logical based associations, field lookups in non-preference objects, and validation against unrelated objects.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add to the display when you mouse over a data point on a Line Graph on a Dashboard the number of occurrences of the metric that were used to get the summarized value.

We have a Line Graph on a Cognos Analytics Dashboard. The x-axis are Dates We have a metric that falls in one of 3 categories. In the Dashboard UI, I created 4 variables to hold the numbers for each category and 1 for all numbers for all categorie...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Pause Refresh

In Analysis there is a “Pause Refresh” button that is useful when building a report. This report stops the system from refreshing the data as you are busy making your field selection which saves time when building a report. Is there something ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

group queries (e.g. in folders)

our customer often uses more than 20 queries in his reports and wants to group the queries (e.g. in folders) to locate relevant queries faster for easier maintenance of his reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration