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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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An environmental variable that sets the database to use "Enforced" as a default for constraints.

For some shops, constraints are always created as "Enforced". This used to be the default behavior, but the default behavior was changed to "Not Enforced" in Db2 V11.Creating an environmental variable would allow the teams to choose the default be...
almost 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Catalog and project export feature are not available in ICP4D

Summary: In the previous version, we had the option to export the project/catalog but in the current 4.6.5, the feature is not Available. Our team wants to bulk export the project/catalog assets, due to this limitation team are unable to achieve t...
almost 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Possibility to change the limit by 10 000 rows when reading a data source in a Notebook

There is a limit by 10 000 rows when reading a data source in a Notebook. To read the data we use: CADataConnector.read_data(path=””) But we only get a maximum of 10 000 rows. Is there any way to change this limit? There is a parameter called nrow...
almost 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DMC Backup Restore

It would be great if database administrators could manage and schedule backups and restores from the DMC in Cloud Pak.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Datastage supporting generic API's to an external security provider

Background:GDPR is bringing an eminent need to safely secure sensitive (customer-) data. This is bringing new requirements to the tools that have access to this data. DataStage, due to the functional nature of the tool, is requiring extremely high...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities. It would help in maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment. You currently has less to nothing as a tool to see all roles and capibilities. Ca...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration