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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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Even Multiple files exists on S3,it should be able to data virtualize.

Currently it is possible to virtualize data if there are only 1 file in folder. If client wants to virtualize data on S3, they have to create many folders.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

remove the need of backup/restore for Planning Analytics Workspace

can IBM put the data from curren PAW backup to a cube on IPA data server? remove the need to run backup/restore for PAW? for a pipeline deploying of PAW, the backup/restore process is especially hard to implement/maintain. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mass creation or migration of Virtual Target System maps

Our goal is to use the same VTS names in our formal test environments that are used in production so that developers do not need to change them during the import/export process. On the test environments, we simply point the VTS's to the test endpo...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REST API support for Rule Validation

The REST API should have support for rule syntax checking just like it does for TI syntax checking. Today you must "save" a rule to find out it is invalid.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Adjust F2 criteria for AUTO_REORG on adaptive compressed tables

AUTO_REORG uses reorgchk output, like F2 criteria. The problem is that F2 does not take into account pagelevel dictionary. The size can be important, like 5K out of a 16K page, and therefore F2 criteria is always below the 70%... and tables will k...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP (6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP - allow ALTER to be able to change GENERATE ALWAY/DEFAULT

TIMESTAMP (6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP - allow ALTER to be able to change GENERATE ALWAY/DEFAULT
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make life with data selections easier. For instance with Max Day. Or Rolling 50 days or....

Worked together with TD to use a data module to create calculations to find latest item and filter on that. No need for updating the data manually anymore. Creating a daily updated snapshot of that data can speed up querying. Still running-periods...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When sending PDFs by mail, dynamic setting of the mail header and attached filename

When sending PDFs or XLS by mail, a datetimestamp, parameter or burstgroupvalue would be preferred to be included in the file name and in the header of the mail
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel link function to retrieve effective ownership and group currency other than immediate group

Currently excel link function cc.fCompOpwnp() to retrieve the effective ownership of an entity to group is limited to immediate group. And the function to retrieve group currency cc.fCompCurr() is also limited to immediate group in one consol type...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration