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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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Make Dynamic Plan Stability really stable

We use dynamic sql now in nearly all of our applications. It is essential for our shop that the access paths for dynamic sql are as stable as possible. So we will use the new V12 feature "dynamic plan stability". If you look into the manuals and i...
about 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 18 Not under consideration

Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

TM1 API / Excel VBA - Refresh Sheet => Refresh Selected Sheet without sheet activate

In the TM1 PAX API it is currently only possible to update the current sheet. The sheet must therefore be activated before the refresh. It would be an advantage if you could specify the sheet and it would not have to be ‘activated’ beforehand. Rea...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Ability to customize color of buttons in message box

Blue color often associated to "validate/ok" and black color to "reject/nok" whereas sometimes it is quicker to choose the black one (e.g. moving a workflow)
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Interactive vs Non-interactive re-run differences

When you click the run on an interactive report, not the drop down on the run you get a prompt page to re-run. If you click the drop down there is no reset prompts and run choice. When you click the run on a non-interactive report, you get a drop ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

AVI stage – CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS not available

THR is using AVI Stage to build the process of address verification. The census data information which we are looking for are CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS. We are getting this information with CASS Verification through Altery...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

True (Non-Unique) Display Names

It would be awesome if we could simply set an ATTRIBUTE as the DISPLAYED VALUE in a PAW Visualization on the rows/columns/wherever. There are often instances where you have a dimensional hierarchy where you have a certain level of consolidation (s...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration