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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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Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Search capabilities to find answers (assistant says)

Imagine a giant corpus where the curator needs to quickly find in which action and step a certain string (response) is located. Today the Assistant search only finds actions by their name and it would be very useful to be able to find steps and an...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration
200 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 21 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel - UI for DefineCalc function

Hello, the DefineCalc function in Pafe is intended to enable the end user to create their own calculations. However, not every user is able to understand the MDX syntax, therefore a power user, TM1 developer is necessary for the definition. In ord...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool

The idea would be to have a permission or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0). As it can cause major problems.
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Renaming none to blank space in the picklist function in TM1

Problem Statement: In the Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), users are encountering an issue when selecting options from a drop-down menu in an input cube with the picklist enabled. The drop-down list displays a default element labeled “None”. Th...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration