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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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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...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Please ensure that no filters are applied when selecting ICOS during project creation.

When creating a project in watsonx.ai SaaS, there is a section where we can select Storage (ICOS). (Screenshot_Create a project.png) It seems that the filter applied on the previous Associate Service screen is also being applied to this selection ...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Duplicate flow to put new flow in same folder as original flow

Currently when duplicating a flow in CP4D the new flow is put in the root folder and not in the same folder as the original flow. Would be better if it worked like legacy and put the new flow in same folder
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Relative URLs within Dashboards

Relative paths in dashboards, as is possible in reports.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE INDEX (ALL) NPI NO

At the moment only a RUNSTATS TABLESPACE with INDEX (ALL) is possible. When using DSNACCOX suggestions for a RUNSTATS may be generated only for one or few partitions of a PBR-TS. I therefore suggest a additional parameter (e.g. NPI YES/NO) to cons...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Federated PASSTHRU Capability in Watson Query (WQ)

IBM's federated technology supports SET PASSTHRU to a remote Server. This enables SQL syntax native to the remote data repository to be sent. This is useful for performance comparisons (e.g. predicate pushdown) to be made from the same end-user cl...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

PAW Plans: Locking assets of a task for further input after the task has been submitted

Currently, it is not possible to (automatically) lock associated assets of a task within a Plan once it has been submitted and is waiting for approval or after the submission has been accepted to prevent any changes to the entered or already accep...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration