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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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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...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Symphony jobs log retrieval enhanced mechanism

Whereas Symphony provides an easy way to retrieve its own cluster logs through its System Logs web interface, the same is not true for user jobs submitted to the cluster. Today, a given job’s log is generated and stored on the filesystem. A user m...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 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...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API

We need the ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API. We anticipate to update values very frequently doing manually through UI is not efficient.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

CP4D - Need API for Zen database to collect user and group information

As per the UIOLI process, we need to pull user, group and last accessed timestamp of a user for CP4D. This is inline with case #TS015500667, we are able to see the required information of users and groups in ZEN database. Now, we want to know if t...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

OpenPages UI Tooltip to show field-specific info when mouse hover over a field in an object view

Customer requested this feature. End users would like to see additional info explaining the current field they are about to fill out in an OpenPages object record. End users would to mouse hover over a field and get hints and additional details to...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 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...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Modify redirected recovery to recover FROM tablespace where you can SELECT/UNLOAD and not require RECOVERAUTH.

The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace one must essentially have database RECOVERAUTH on the source tablespace and the target tablespace. (please...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists