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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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Federated PASSTHRU Capability in Watson Query (WQ)

IBM's federated technology supports SET PASSTHRU to a remote Server. This enables SQL syntax native to the remote data repository to be sent. This is useful for performance comparisons (e.g. predicate pushdown) to be made from the same end-user cl...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Limit the amount of data retrieved from Teradata in a DVM SQL Query

Since the SQL LIMIT parameter is not supported in Teradata, DVM-Teradata users need the ability to limit the amount of data retrieved from a query to a Teradata database otherwise the query does not come back, DVM chews up CPU trying to process a ...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Calculations for storing in forms in Controller web

Example: It would be great to have forms where you kan mix different actualities, and have calculations which makes the summation stored in the db. For example in the budget-process when you define forms where you get AC (YTD) in the first column ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Auto Resize Result List

the properties.js file is not supported in the new Analytics interactive viewer so SYSTEMPROPERTY_CSEARCH_AUTO_RESIZE_RESULT_LIST will not work when set to true. This is something that worked in 10.2.2 and no longer works.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations to use in active reports. This will allow for the crosstab and list to be filtered by a category not being displayed in the values. Same behaviour as charts.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add parameters to SubsetMDXSet and HierarchySubsetMDXSet to allow invalid/null MDX expressions

SubsetCreateByMDX has a parameter to allow MDX expressions to save even if they evaluate to null or invalid. There should be an equivalent parameter added to the following functions - HierarchySubsetMDXSet - SubsetMDXSet Reason is a lot of times s...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

ViewSubsetAssign should update the underlying vue file

ViewSubsetAssign should update the vue file on disk. The reason is on server restart, it uses the vue file to render the view.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Security issue in PAW shared folder

Hi Team, In order to provide the analysts and modelers access to create Applications and Plans in PAW interface, we have created a PAW security group “Applications and Plans” to which all the required users are added and we have given Edit only ac...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Extension Output Node for Python with Graph Output tab like R

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the stream pr...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Planned for future release