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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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Improve optimizers cost estimation when recursive table expression invloved

Please refer to case TS004038133. Application developer uses SQL EXPLAIN to compare the cost of different SQL statement and decides which one to use. In one case, they found EXPLAIN reported lower cost for one SQL than other but in actual executio...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable multiple language collections

We have many customers in Europe who have content in multiple languages. In WEX AC and oneWEX this was not a problem as the first step in the WEX analysis pipeline is to determine the main langaueg for a document and then apply the relevant out of...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Provide DDL of assets when analyze phase of automated discovery fails.

When analyze phase of automated discovery fails, providing DDL of assets helps users to understand and/or troubleshoot the issue. For example, a view assets could not be accessed for data anymore when some of its dependency table is not available....
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Data Discovery: add NPS to Connection type box when creating a new connection.

Not possible to add directly a NPS connection to Data Discovery. We have a workaround provided by IBM, first we have to create a NPS connection via Import Metadata.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

How to set format for Number and Percent both on the Chart ?

Hi there,We use Loan Outstanding Amount measure which is a direct measure come from Data Base (no calculation). The value displayed incorrect for both case (default and percentage) Please see the attachment "Format on the chart for Number and Perc...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMC Very Slow to Load User Information From LDAP

When using the PMC, loading the user information takes a very long time. We have over 25,000 users in LDAP. When using the PMC to create a new user it takes a very long time to load the user list. When adding or changing Roles for a user, it takes...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

RTM: improve filtering

when using job or license filtering, the request is looking in several fields, giving unexpected results, even when checking a hyperlinked preset object, like project: the output give results in command name, job name, server name, etc. the keywor...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration