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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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Numeric Range Picklist

There are many occassion that we may need to create a picklist with numeric range, say 1~100 or maybe 1%~100%, and including decimal places. If we need to do it using the traditional way like static: or dimension: or subset:, the list could be ver...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support of static SQL (SQLJ) for IntelliJ regarding Code completion and Error Detection

A lot of customers are using IntelliJ enterprise wide, while still using static sql in Java and therefore have a heavy need for support of the IDE and not just read log output and match it with the code in the editor.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add built-in function for generating new UUID values

Generating new UUIDs for large tables has become a serious performance issue for us. We have a workflow in our application that updates a UUID column for tables in excess of 5 million rows. This takes us upwards of 2 hours in our odbc (cli) applic...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Conditional formatting for a point in the visualization map

Conditional formatting for a point in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Better functionality in rules with hierarchies

If there is a dimension that has multiple PAW hierarchies on it, and has a C level rule that reference an element that is in both the main dimension and hierarchy, it would be good to not have to specify every hierarchy we want the rule applied to.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing more than one label in the visualization map

Showing more than one label in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Server and cube displayed in PAx Quick Reports

What server a quick report is connected to isn't obvious. A new row should be added above the sandbox reference that indicates the server and the cube that the quick report is based off of, similar to the VIEW statement in Perspectives slice reports.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration