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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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Sort visualizations by data not shown on the visualization similar to Report Studio

When using a relational model with a time query subject the the month query item (which contains only the month name) is sorted on the visualizations alphabetically. In Report Studio we are able to specify that the sort is based on our month epoch...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support of static SQL (SQLJ) for IntelliJ regarding Code completion and Error Detection

A lot of customers are using IntelliJ enterprise wide, while still using static sql in Java and therefore have a heavy need for support of the IDE and not just read log output and match it with the code in the editor.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add built-in function for generating new UUID values

Generating new UUIDs for large tables has become a serious performance issue for us. We have a workflow in our application that updates a UUID column for tables in excess of 5 million rows. This takes us upwards of 2 hours in our odbc (cli) applic...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Numeric Range Picklist

There are many occassion that we may need to create a picklist with numeric range, say 1~100 or maybe 1%~100%, and including decimal places. If we need to do it using the traditional way like static: or dimension: or subset:, the list could be ver...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set Frequency of Alerts sent for Database and Agent Critical Thresholds

Currently in the Administration area of Planning Analytics there the ability to set warning and critical thresholds and an on/off button for the alert. However an email is only sent ONCE. So as an example if the Disk Usage on your Server is curren...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Better functionality in rules with hierarchies

If there is a dimension that has multiple PAW hierarchies on it, and has a C level rule that reference an element that is in both the main dimension and hierarchy, it would be good to not have to specify every hierarchy we want the rule applied to.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable sending individual messages from FTM Base to MER for printing ( pdf format), printing with a visible field description (printing ACKs and incoming messages)

Users can only save the .txt format without field description in Base , they need the ability to send the entire message (ACK with header) in pdf format in case of complaint and also incoming message with fields
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration