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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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Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Need the ability to copy collection configuration and data from one environment to another

The backup and restore script in Watson Discovery allows you to copy all collection configuration and data from one environment to another. However, it is not possible to copy date for a specific collection. This feature is useful when collections...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Need a crawler in Watson Discovery to crawl documents from Confluence

Confluence is a popular repository that many companies use. Currently there is no option to crawl Confluence documents.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

The Watson Discovery Web crawler should be able to crawl sites protected by ForgeRock Authentication SSO.

Currently the web crawler is not able to crawl sites protected by complicated protocol like SAML or OAuth, hence ForgeRock SSO Authentication does not work.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Discovery / Watson Explorer 0 Submitted

Clean Dimensions after Element Deletion

When in debug logging, it was noticed that deleted elements in dimensions would throw errors on cube load. e.g 9/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube Loading body for cube }StatsByRule 21116 Debug 07/29/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube.Loading Could not find element "Gen S...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

temporary catalog table

Creating a temporary catalog table could be useful in various situations to restore certain numbers of rows to their original state. Using the example of SYSSEQUENCES, it could be possible to perform a row-based recovery in the event of an error w...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Backup Utility POD image

Hello, At present a CP4D admin ( Namespace Admin) needs to install and run CPD-CLI on a Virtual machine/Laptop in-order for his/her to run the OADP back-up. In an Enterprise world, this doesn't provide best Operation efficiency as there would be m...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0