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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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Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Datalake HIVE Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Datalake and accessible from Hive Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-pro...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Allow temp tables and backup before images to handle temp dbspaces which fill up.

If temporary tables/backup before images are spread across multiple temp dbspaces and one fills then put the data/page into the temp dbspaces which have space.This would stop backups/jobs failing.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

format ([$END_USER$]) to be available for Workflow Operations

It would be useful to have < format ([$END_USER$]) > be available in a workflow operation. Currently it is only available when using a calculation.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration

Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB(...) and [...] reference builder to be added to PAW

In architect/perspectives when you write rules, you have the ability to click the DB(...) or [...] to build references to other cubes or areas within the current cube. In PAW, there does not seem to be a function to assist in building references b...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Setting the data type in the data asset node of Modeler Flow

When handling numeric data in CSV, values with a large number of digits are judged to be invalid records because they fall outside the Int32 range. From the customer's point of view, this data itself is not abnormal, and there are cases where the...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SHUTDOWN DB2 WHEN RACF EXIT FAILURE

After RACF EXIT is abending and failing , DB2 is changing back to Native DB2 Auth checking , If you migrated to RACF exit this can lead to unwanted behavior , we would want a ZPARM or OPTION to make DB2 shutdown if the RACF EXIT is not wokring
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists