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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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Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Workbook template

Add the possibility to create new custom templates when creating a workbook. the ones available by default from IBM are not fitting with our requests (for example area on top for the title is too high) using free book is not a real option as we mi...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple hadr standbys in ASYNC mode

At present HADR claims to replicate to multiple standbys. While technically true this is practically false. Since all standbys past the 1st one must be in SUPERASYNC once the additional standbys 'glitch' up they stop processing logs and never proc...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow buttons/rich response as part of Option Response Type for Intercomm

Typically, we can adjust the Option Response Type to be a button or list etc for responses on the chat. However, support team confirmed with development team that rich response is not available for Intercom. This request is to impletement support ...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Knowledge Catalog - Data Asset Versioning

Use case: 1. uploaded a data asset2. added new rows or columns to this data asset file Add functionality to add a new version of existing data asset W/O creating a new data asset?
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Enhancements to NTH in the TOM

We are running OMEGAMON for DB2 V5R3 and have recently installed PTF UI50913 that makes Near Term History available in the TOM. However, we are noticing that there is some functionality that can be found in the CUA that is not yet available in the...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration