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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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Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Record usage of application plan

In our production environment we have about 15000 application plans. Most of them are probably still used but a lot of them have not been used for several years. We want to get rid of the old ones not to have to rebind them at every new release of...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Duplicate Related Values Error Handling

When importing multi-related values into an RDS via a csv and there's a duplicate on one row the import bombs out with the error and no related values are imported after that point, even the correct ones. Instead of an error, it would be helpful i...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Dashboard should mask data (Data protection rule)

Dashboards should be mask data based on the data protection rule, Problem: Even if certain data is masked in Preview or Refinery in the analytics project, Dashboard allows all collaborator to show its data. According the manual below, in the Dashb...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Future consideration

The incremental Import option is not available for GCP BigQuery connection for MDI

We need incremental import option for GCP Big Query connection for MDI's.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

add tables to active CDC subscription

problem statement : for every table addition, subscription needs to be brought down, impacting the CDC replication service. workaround : none at the moment Proposed Solution : rather , an ask from IBM - please allow table addition to subscription,...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Db2 PureScale Spectrum Scale Package (GPFS) should include performance sensor and collector package

Dear IBM, in the Spectrum Scale distribution bundled with DB2 pureScale, the binary of mmperfmon is included but the packages for the required sensors and collectors are missing. mmperfmon is needed to identify possible performance bottlenecks wit...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration