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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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Table Partition creation auto extension Functionality

Today DB2 doesn’t provide the auto table partition extension Functionality. We would like to have the Functionality available, could you please let us know if this is feasible and if yes how soon it would be available. This is Functionality is ava...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

AWS EFS CSI Driver support

We had built CP4D env on AWS. Once v4.0 release, AWS EFS is not supported. Even other cloud service's NFS storages are still supported. We heard it caused by technical limitation of EFS with NFS protocol, and CSI(Container Storage Interface) has ...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Edit Cognos Charts in PowerPoint

A chart is exported from Cognos to PowerPoint(PPT). It is then sent to the client for review. The client requests font changes (non-data) to the chart. However, to make these changes the developer has to go back to Cognos, make the updates, log th...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Identifier of Uploaded Files.

When user uploads a file the Identifier has the same name of file. When the user changes the names, the Identifier continues with the old name.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Key Deletes from Parent Tables

Optim Data Growth currently has a restriction in place to disallow using a multi-key delete strategy on a Parent table. If you attempt to delete more than one key at a time, Optim will issue a severe warning code and then default the key limit to ...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Customized abbreviation dictionary to improve data class assignment and searching for business terms

Capabilites similar to Erwin and other data modelling tools in which abbreviations can be expanded for search and for field name recognition. Ideally, each field could also have an automatic "expanded" or un-abbreviated alias. Column name ABS_VAL ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Project level selection of data rules that supports asking what rules are bound to a column, what columns use a rule definition etc.

We would like to be able to directly select the columns to which a particular rule is bound. It seems like this could be supported in the current selection interface for new style projects. We would also like to be able to go the other way and see...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Direct support for partitioning and subsetting of assets

Often it is valuable to be able to run data rules on subsets of data. There are two specific use cases for us. One is that almost everything is separated by "division" making it very useful to run data rules separately, but this currently requires...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration