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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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Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists
124 VOTE

Option to Run Schedule Once

We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Indicate whether the fallback SPE for Db2 13 migration is installed

As a user planning to migrate to Db2 13 I already activated V12R1M510 on my Db2 12 subsystem. However, I also want to make sure that I have the fallback SPE PH37108 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH37108 installed. Could this information b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Planned for future release

Development or test stories for an Agile Development Team for the Explain or RA

Customer is looking for a capability that will draft initial development or test stories for an Agile Development Team. It would be great if functionality was provided either out of Refactor Assistant or even Explain to build these user stories fo...
22 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

REST API for resetting vendor user password

As part of our Customer Business we do managed 1000+ Vendors in PIM, where 2000+ users are mapped under that, and expiry Policy of the Vendor User is 3 months. So, each time user password is expired or if users are forgetting the Password there is...
22 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Database overview in numbers

I would like an overview of the database in figures. There was already something like this in Architect. In PAW I can't see how many cells a cube has and how many of them are filled. Or how many elements there are in a dimension. These numbers giv...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Hide Hierarchy Name in Column & Line Charts that Actually Works

I received this response from raising a ticket about the hide hierarchy name toggle not actually working: "Hide hierarchy name" in legend property is currently an expected limitation of the chart engine we are using. When using multiple members fo...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Support for Credential Guard when using Kerberos authentincation

Kerberos authentication should be possible when Credential Guard is enabled in Windows. Specially since it is be enabled by default in Windows 11. Lack of this functionality is basically a violation of support for Windows 11 and Kerberos on the pl...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

HELM Charts for DataStage Deployment

The impact right now is to change the process and add additional workarounds for datastage at the enterprise level. As a organization, HELM has been adopted as a standard since its an industry level standard for quite sometime. This also allow mor...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release