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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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Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support or warn of null (linklisted) DB2 STEPLIB and RUNLIB

DB2 Admin Tool customization via IBM TCz (IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS) requires the user to specify both the ‘DB2 load libraries’ and the ‘DB2 run library’ for each DB2 subsystem. There is no 'option' to specify: 1) A single set of libraries for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Point(dot) chart, dots are overlapping, its not good for visualization

Cognos Analytics Dashboard: We cannot set the opacity on the chart, only the whole chart it self. The dots are overlapping each other, thus not every mark is visible on the chart. Allow to change the opacity of the dots on the chart.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a command to remove a specific retained lock

Under current behavior in a DB2 Data Sharing environment, when a DB2 member crashes and is not able to restart, the application on the other members is stopped by retained locks.In our environment, for some specific applications due to the nature ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Permit relative proportional spread using a consolidated element that has negative weighted elements.

Let's say you want to spead 10000$ over 12 months in broker fees and you want to base your spread on net sales (a level 2 element for example). If the net sales has deductions for transport (weight is -1), you will get an error stating that there ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

CDC support for replication to SQL Server 2017 on Linux

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data to SQL Server. We would like to move SQL Server to Linux but CDC only supports SQL Server on Windows. CDC should support replicating data to SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Update statistics profile from SYSIBM.SYSFEEDBACK by demand.

We are running under DB2 v12 level 501 Data Sharing 17-way and he is using statistics feedback with profile, but since it is an autonomic process for all objects there are some package access path becoming worst after run utilities with RUNSTATS U...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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