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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Work identification based on number of subsections in a statement.

Work identification can currently be done based on Estimated cost, Estimated cardinality, Estimated data accessed. Ref: "Work identification by type, cost, or data accessed with work classes - IBM Documentation" This allows for identification of c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

With 64-bit execution mode enabled, no longer require 32-bit libraries

(Cognos 11.1.7 - on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Please consider removing the need for 32-bit dependencies in Cognos if the 64-bit execution mode is enabled. This is misleading if we enable 64-bit to try and run a more modern DQM version of Cognos, yet 32-bi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Namespace export to allow restore of individual users

This is a request to better protect User's data under the My Contents folders. Currently you can export all users but there is no granularity so that you can restore specific users that have an issue (It's all or nothing).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Selected reporting period should be more prominent

In the standard UI the reporting period dropdown was visible while looking at data. In the TF UI this is now hidden and it is easy for users to get confused about whether they are in a previous reporting period or not. Suggestion is to move this t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Zabbix support

Allow for Zabbix agent to be officially supported on the platform to have integrated monitoring of all systems in the company including CPDS.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Drill through window should have maximize button

When users drill through the window is small. When users want to drill through and see more data, they have to first move the screen from the center to the left and then expand the bottom. They need to do this for each time they drill through. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

WKC query functionality

As a data steward I would like to be able to query metadata about the assets that I own. As a data analyst I would like to be able to query information about a particular business term and its use.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Add record count on the tabbed group grids

It would be great if the user could see a count against every grid in a tab group so they can easily identify which ones have data. This would prevent them from wasting time clicking on each grid one by one.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

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