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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Acceleration of queries that have masked columns referenced in the outermost SELECT

If a column is masked and referenced in the SELECT clause, the queries is no longer a candidate for acceleration. " Outermost SELECT statement must not reference masked columns" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daafz/7.5?topic=accelerator-supported-que...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

API to inspect collection status in detail.

The WD for CP4D has API v2 which does not have listing collection details. Sometimes collection stops processing documents and not sure what is the collection status for trouble shooting.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Copytocopy utility runs in parallel

BdB does a flashcopy from one tablespace (one copy for each partition), and they need to do a COPYTOCOPY. Today we use another DB2 utility vendor and it has an option to do parallel copies.We tried to run IBM DB2 Utility, but we didn't find an par...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IMPROVE Find & replace in PAX for TM1 related formulas

In the excel Find/Replace scheme, Excel is inputting replacing those cells one at a time. There is a small improvement of performance by switching the Excel Calculation Option to Manual prior to the Find/Replace, but it still calculates every cell...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expanding Messages DSNB355I and DSNB356I

MSG DSNB355I / DSNB356I did not give information for the affected object and page. So any reaction and reason search on these Messages is not possible. Please expand the message information for the object information with DBID.PSID.#partno.#pageno.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Relationship Cardinality Testing / Validation Needs Row Counts

When producing a Data Module and desiring to test and validate defined relationship cardinality, the ability to see row counts is essential. This is available within Framework Manager in order to test / validate relationships and cardinality. It w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All Db2 Family datasources enable DB2 Trusted context for SSO

To make the Data Fabric more user friendly, enable the Db2 Family datasources to be able to use Trusted Context connections. When using SSO, the person will not need a a password to access the datasources, as the platform will flow the user name t...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

bjobs -o reserved_mem or bhosts -o reserved_mem

To see how much memory is reserved on a host, we need to parse the bhosts -l <hostname> command, and it doesn't give us info about which job is reserving how much memory. I'd either like to see one of the following: bhosts -o 'jobid reserved...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration