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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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Change behaviour of duplicate entries in Range Lookups

When using a range lookup (range selected on the main stream) when matching e.g. a key column and range of date from/to you may get more than one hit for the key but the range on the date columns will make the lookup unique, in this case you still...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Mapping Visualization Extra Zip Codes

Current map visualtion for Cognos Analytics is missing or else is unable to resolve some zip codes that need to be in place for a critical security dashboard. Because the current map provider has not included some zip codes, a dashboard mapping CO...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Index support to improve performance of recursive queries.

Recursive SQL on IDAA V7 have bad performance, because of missing index. Indexes have to be created manually on the IDAA database through the SSH interface.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need support for Oracle clustered tables

Request for IDR/CDC for Oracle to support sourcing from Oracle clustered tables. At this time, the documentation indicates this is not supported.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Reading CSV Files with Non-Delimiting Commas

The Var File Source node in Modeler is not able to detect commas within a comma-delimited file that are not delimiters. A comma within a single field would currently cause that field to be read as two fields, and distort all of the data beyond the...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Saved file/attachment from a Report Studio report

Requirement is to retrieve/download physical file when we click on respective column from Report Studio report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customer raised concerns over PUT method used by MDM instead they want to use POST

Sharing the concern raised by bank’s security group. If we can address the same please. Thanks If PUT method if enabled, an attacker may be able to place arbitrary and potentially malicious content into the application. Depending on the server's c...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve DB2 sliding scale algorithm (SECQTY -1)

The maximum secondary space allocation of 559 cylinders for objects of 64GB or greater is too little causing the number of extents hits the limit of 255 or if using Extent Constraint Removal it would generated many extents. For the cases where the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide table function that collects DSN1COMP data

For sake of brevity, I will confine this request to DB2 index compression analysis, but it also applies to tablespaces. When have more than 100,000 indexes in our various Production DB2 systems. We want to know which of these indexes are the most ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Multilanguage support in datamodule

Multilanguage support in datamodule
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration