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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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Dark mode for Planning Analytics

Just a nice feature to have if IBM can enable dark mode so that TI processes can be developed much like VS Code UI and easy on the eyes as shown below. What I found was utilising the javascript but would be nice to have it permanently.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Addition of Column Reordering Feature in IBM Data Refinery

As a user of IBM Data Refinery, I appreciate the platform's robust capabilities for data preparation and cleansing. However, I have identified a significant functionality gap that I believe could greatly enhance the user experience and productivit...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

New MDM and Datastage releases available on RHEL 9.x on Power

Customer is currently running on X86 are InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v11.6/v12 & InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) v11.7. It is expected that MDM on RHEL 9 will be announced early 2024 and in order to have a chance at this winbac...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
about 2 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

I use CDC Replication to send the data from IBM ISeries into Snowflake but after upgrading the JDBC Driver to 3.15.0 I started getting an error in the Table Mapping. The error is "Unknown datatype: TIMESTAMPZ". It is due to a couple of metadata co...
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted