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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Customer requesting JSON data type support in 4GL

Two customer using 4GL as main development system, request support for JSON variables or JSON casting in 4GL for being able to use BSON columns in 4GL.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Supporting multi valued filter on grid columns in the collaboration are grid.

Hi Team, Business users want to filter collaboration entries on the grid for multiple Department Numbers because they usually work on multiple departments. With the current filter support on the grid column only one value can be entered for the De...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Set up load balancing for Planning Analytics 2.0.1 PAW & Docker

We would like to set up load balancing.Currently the PAW Docker installation is a single point of failure for the Planning Analytics 2.0.1 application.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Server Install

Would prefer to run Lifecycle manager from a server rather than a desktop, but can't do that because when you log off a server, then it disables the application. Would like to be able to leave the machine and still leave the Lifecycle Manager stil...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Automatic sync between notebook and Model Builder Python code

Avoid the frequent and confusing reinitialize of the Model Builder Python code and the source notebook by automatically updating the Model Builder Python code from the notebook.

TRY_CAST for DB2 LUW (CAST without error)

"New" scalar-function TRY_CASTReturns a value cast to the specified data type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration