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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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Define AVRO namespace by configuration

This enhancement is raised by this support issue https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002WX4YiAAL/define-avro-namespace-configurable?language=en_US In general we like to define the AVRO namespace in the Management Console. The current produ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Knowledge Studio support for commonly accepted CSV formats

Problem The current implementation of Watson Knowledge Studio imposes very strict (narrow) limitations on the CSV content format that is used for importing Dictionaries. Knowledge Studio requires that each value is enclosed in double-quotes. This ...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

XMETA SQL Query via Connector

My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach. Our prop...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

More control over repeater in Dashboards

The repeater functionality in Dashboard visualization currently generates one graph per category but does not provide control over how many categories to display before moving to the next row/column. This functionality would be very useful in gett...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Content Backup/Restore

We would like the new Create and Manage Content to have the same abilities as the current Admin Console.., example being able to select a folder to backup to... PLUS, have the ability to lock down the Content Store access for Report Admin's... we ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use permanent database for DSNTRVFY rather than implicit database

Each time we run DSNTIJRV, the DSNTRVFY program creates the DSNTRVFY.VALIDATION_TABLE in an implicitly-created database, which the process then leaves hanging around with no objects in it. Both empty databases and implicitly-created databases viol...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Usability improvement of IGNORE OPTION of DB2 LOAD

DBAs can decide to tolerate and ignore certain categories of errors and violations in LOAD processing by specifying the IGNORE keyword . Nevertheless, the SYSOUT of the LOAD with the IGNORE keyword specified, provides only the number of records ig...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Missing Report Outout Formats to Fully Interactive Viewer

When viewing a Fully Interactive report, allow the user to run the report in Excel, Excel Data and CSV formats.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Multi-level category security

We have multiple primary categories with multi-level subcategories. The All Users group is added with the Viewer role by default. Because of inheritance, all subcategories are viewable by all users. In some instances, we need to branch the subcate...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration