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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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Limit query for DMC Storage panel to active tables

Limit query scope for storage panel to active tables. Query on a peoplesoft DB takes 53 min whereas limiting scope to active tables (MON_GET_TABLE), it takes < 5 min. On Peoplesoft DB, we have about 65K tables when only 7K are used.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Update documentation to be clear which datasources are supported to generate datasets in databand

Up to date documentation is always useful to the developers. It reduces time and effort spent trying to figure out how the product works. Currently databand documentation does not specify which datasources are supported yet, in terms of whether it...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Not functional 0

Rich text content not available in reports

The long description fields in the ICD can contain formatted content („rich text content“).This content cannot be reported with Cognos.The appropriate cognos tool for this kind of data would be the Rich Text element but these elements support ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory restrict full search

Users can use search on AD namespace and be able to see all other users from other OUs.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Onconfig parameter to disable automatic registration of datablades.

In high volume environments automatic registration of datablades can cause too much contention and impact processing.We would like a new onconfig parameter to disable the automatic registration of datablades.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow Filters to be edited by clicking if shown in report

The new reporting tool lacks the capability that Query Studio offered in the shown filters could be removed or edited by clicking on them. The overall style of how they are shown in 11.0.3 are far less superior than what Query Studio offered.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

k-fold cross-validation

We need k-fold cross-validation to improve the stability of the model.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Pagination / OFFSET in IAS

Many applications in our firm use pagination, e.g. to display a part of a result set in a web application. This is currently not supported on the integrated analytics system.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration