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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

"Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs support for Python 3.10 and 3.11 Support for IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.*

It can be challenging to motivate/influence the Spark community to use the latest Python version which can delay the ability of Spectrum Conductor to use the latest Python version. "Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs compatible with Python 3.10.*...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Future consideration

Usability of REORG

When we did a big reorg of 32 billion records we missed some details in dis util functionality:1. how long every phase will take place, RTS knows the amount of records needs to be approx unloaded ...if its been done 1 billion in 2 hours means you ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have different display options for Investigation Reports, specifically the Lead Time so rather than displaying in days we would want to see this in hours

Currently Lead time shows in days and seeing 0.1 days isn't necessarily useful when we want to know lead time in hours
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Ability to run a report in OpenPages e.g.(in a Risk Register) and automatically send the result output as email to the login user.

It would be great if a business user can click on a link/button in say an Risk Object and it will run a Cognos report and allow the report output to be delivered through email with the email address registered under the user that logged in. Save t...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Field value valuation

Possibility to define field value validation across 2 fields that are not enumerated strings.For example:- Currency field 1 > Currency field 2- Date field 1 <= Date field 2- Substring (Simple String field 1) = Substring (Simple String field 2)
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 3 Future consideration

Allow Query set operations between packages or data modules

You can add data from multiple packages that use the dynamic query mode. However, Query set operations (join, union, intercept, except) are supported only for the default package or data module. Not being able to join queries built from different ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Job and query execution by predefined time intervals

Create the possibility of executing queries, jobs and other data selection operations by a set of predefined time intervals like "last hour", "last day", "last week", "last month", etc.. It should be possible to apply these predefined time period ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration