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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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Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Satellite Connector agent to be able to connect to 2 or more connectors

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
11 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
18 days ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Submitted

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple rules add the ability to sort

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple they are listed by order they were assigned. We would like to have the ability to sort the column
8 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
8 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Improve user experience when using catalogs

I would like to suggest an improvement in the customization of the presentation of information when the user accesses the Catalogs menu and selects the desired data catalog. It is important that, when viewing data assets, such as schema and table,...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

fix audit log rollover features in Cogconfig

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted