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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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UI Update for Reporting: User-level arrangement of column rows to select from

Direct client feedback on Cognos landing pages, specifically: Exporting selected fields (e.g., 8) currently results in all data points (e.g., 80) appearing in CSV exports. Allowing users to arrange columns instead of defaulting to alphabetical sor...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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...
17 days ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…) TS01740...
16 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Submitted

Alter QSUB add *EXPRESSION* without DROP/RECREATE

As we know, user can alter QSUB and add current_timestamp / timestamp column without drop/recreate QSUB. But it is NOT possible to add an *EXPRESSION* without drop/recreate QSUB. With this feature, it's much more convenient without annoy drop/recr...

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
9 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Submitted

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...

Test and validate CP4D, IKC, and Manta functionality on OCP-Virtualitzation

Verizon is evaluating alternatives to their virtualization technology (VMWare) and OCP-V is the main option they are considering. They would like to make sure that Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Knowledge Catalog will work reliably and with the same o...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Hostfactory config file audit

Like SD, RS, we need to audit HostFactory config files including requestors and providers. The information we need is user name, host info, parameter changed, file name.
3 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted