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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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Better tool for performance analysis and tips

Until now, we can use the tool "explain" to have a query plan generated or use "onmode -Y" for the same purpose. Next, we can use onstat indicators or SMI queries to mearure performance. Anyway, this has downsides:- You have to know the query for ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Define _as_of_date within Dashboard itself

Currently, if you want to change the date of the current day, you have the option to use the "as_of_date" parameter. However, when working with a dashboard and needing to change the current day, you have to navigate to the "My parameter» and modi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

Being able to change the GUI language directly from the GUI

Currently Cloud Pak for Data uses the preferred language of the browser to choose the language of the User Interface. Several customers in Spain have shown dissatisfaction with the Spanish or Portuguese translation as it uses words that are not co...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

データ変更を伴うSUBNMの変更でシートのリフレッシュを行わない

シート上にプルダウン(SUBNM)を配置したWebシートにて、セル値に値を入力した後に更新(キューブへの保存)を未完了の状態でプルダウン(SUBNM)を変更してしまうと値が自動で保存されてしまう。 意図しない保存が発生してしまうため、上記動作で自動的に値の保存を実施しないか、保存前に警告メッセージを表示するなどの機能を用意いただきたい。 ※詳細はCase 番号 TS004643031 に記載しております
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration