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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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Command to resolve in-place alters

Have a command "UPGRADE_IPA" which can be run against a table/fragment to resolve in-place alters. This should have an online option which utilizes small transactions.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support click house data source

Case number TS010994014
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Skipping processing of image files (JPG/GIF/PNG/image PDF)

Watson Discovery ingests a number of file types, including image types like JPG/GIF/PNG/image PDF. When OCR is switched off, Discovery still processes these files and captures its metadata. Our client wants to skip image files completely and also ...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DDL command doesn't generate comment

Table comments not displayed. The workaround is to query the catalog directly. The / command to show sysibm.systables does show a portion of the comment but not in it's entirety. Affected users are anyone using DDL command in Db2 Adminstrati...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Extract Dynamic Cube Model

Provide the ability to extract a dynamic cube model from the Cognos content store, similar to the methods used to extract a framework manager model.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optionally providing a larger search results area

An optionally larger search area is required for customers with larger Content Stores. This can be provide on a global level.The search area can be expanded either within the existing window or in a new browser tab. This would solve the current li...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule the new UX forecast feature

Once a particular forecast is set up, it would be nice to be able to schedule it like a chore.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow initialisation using OPL of arrays within tuple sets

In OPL it is not possible to initialise an array which is within a set of tuples either through values or programmatically. An enhancement should be made to OPL to allow this. Consider: {string} Factors = {"a","b","c"}; tuple T_2 { key int i; int ...
almost 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration