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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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Enhanced statistics, e.g., for entire table dataset

The statisticin WKC refers only to the first 5,000 rows and is therefore useless for evaluating the entire dataset in a table. There should be more selection options, such as statistics on the entire table or special selections (e.g., statistics o...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Re-architect to not require permanent storage of userids and passwords for access

The current architecture of Tuning Management Services component of Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS requires a permanent storage of a userid and password in order to facilitate use of QWT. Our shop uses Multi-Factor authentication for human user...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Remove or encrypt data that is stored in dashboard JSON specification when using a data element in the color slot of a visualization with color consistency turned on

This will prevent data security concerns when distributing packages that contain dashboards
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Integration of WebServer logs into Audit Logging

Web server logs or equivalent HTTP access logs are not found in CP4D Audit output. ATTRIBUTES - At a minimum, the required security audit logging attributes must include: a. The identity of the account accessing the system, (e.g.,Standard accounts...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Functionality already exists

Undo Button Removal in Planning Analytics

We have a large number of users who log in and use our system. When the undo button is pressed it takes a long time to execute and it causes user threads to become blocked. Once slowness is reported we would normally go in and cancel this undo thr...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Select / Deselect All Buttons for Table Selection Pane

When the Data Gate table sync screen is opened and a scheme is selected, all tables are automatically selected. This can be a burden if the user only wants to sync a small subset of the tables and must manually deselect the unnecessary tables, esp...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Simple and fast recovery of DB2 CF structures.

Currently there is a list of steps on what to do in case of failures in DB2 CF structures.These structures are vitally important for DB2 Data Sharing. I suggest having a single command that allows quick and easy error recovery for these DB2 struct...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Writeback to object storage and databases through data virtualization layer

Real-Life Scenario In our Data Lake, we want to expose all of our data sources (structured and unstructured) to our customers in an unified data virtualization layer. In one use case, we want to train an AI algorithm on the data and flag those fil...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

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 ...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration