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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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Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Watson Studio

Policies and rules defined in the Knowledge Catalog do not extend to Watson Studio. The benefits of the catalog are the ability to quickly serve data teams assets from across the organisation to enable self-service analysis, "making data a trusted...
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Analytics Engine

Analytics Engine components such as Hive are an important part of the Data Lake story. Without Hive, external users are unable to query data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. However, Analytics Engine is not integrated with Watson Knowledge Catalog. Th...
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Allow OTHER CA environments report on TM1 database secured with mode 5 (CAM)

Currently, when a TM1 server is configured with IntegratedSecurityMode=5 (CAM), only that one CAM environment can report on that TM1 database. No other CA environment can query that TM1 database. To workaround that limitation, customers have to se...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web 'Refresh' button (to synchronise changes made in classic client) to be inside other tabs where 'Issues' are flagged (like the 'Reconciliation' tab) instead of only inside tab 'Intercompany'

There is a known limitation with Controller Web (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1167568, plus also case TS004629628) where if you make changes in Controller 'classic' client (for example to fix a reconciliation issue) then Controller W...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support of formula TM1PRIMARYDBNAME() in PAW and TM1Web

In PAX we are using formula TM1PRIMARYDBNAME() to detect the current TM1 server / instance. In PAx this formula works fine, but neither in PAW nor in TM1Web this formula is supported.It would be great to support this function, as we're publishing ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Container for New Cognos Mobile App

Does the development team for Cognos Analytics for Mobile have anything on the app’s roadmap to add support for Intune app protection policies? According to the developer guidance on github, it would require the mobile app developer to make use of...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics Workspace - Hide application with no access

Hello, When a user connect to Planning Analytics Workspace, PAW pull all the PAL application in the UI, even the one that the users don't have access. We would like an option to only show the PAL application that the user have access to. Thanks,Alex
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration