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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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Save and (restore) access plan for dynamic and Statis SQL

Sometime after maintenance, or index/stats change, certain SQL can pick a bad access path. It would be nice to be able to save access path and force db2 to pick old access path. We just had very painful process after V11 migration. When access pat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Disable Commentary Feature

A user has been provided with a TM1Web Websheet based application which includes the ability to capture comments. The comments are held in a cube against a string element and also in SQL Server for a drill through to comment history. The comments ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Our business area has a requirement not allowing users to upload or download sensitive information directly to/from CP4D via files. wondering if uploading or downloading files could be disabled in CP4D?

We have business users from different units. Instead of disabling for all users, could this be done in fine grained and configurable? for example, could upload or download be configured to only apply to certain individual users or role? Some users...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Future consideration

Flexibility of Using LISTDEF Options

Db2 Automation Tool allow users to generate utility control statements using LISTDEFS. There are many options that can be used with LISTDEF utility however Db2 Automation Tool does not provide this flexibility. For instance we need to use DEFIN...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Annotation-based method with system entities

When configuring intents, why cannot annotate samples with system entities. For example "I want to book an appointment with Dr. John for Fifi on next week" Ideally I would like to annotate "John" as "@sys-person" and "next week as a "@sys-...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add additional retry logic when there is a tape volume that is unavailable

Add additional retry logic to better recover from an I/O error while reading a block from an IMS log when there is a tape volume that is unavailable during change stream connect processing. (1)SalesForce Case TS002782852 - DRISRP - Intern...
over 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove restrictions in visualizations on data item type like measures

to make the visualization definition more flexible and easier for users it would be beneficial to remove the restrictions on item type. Typically there are visualization where you can drag in some part only measures. These restrictions make it com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Get the Cognos Analytics French Help go directly to IBM french help page

When a user clicks help ("Aide") From a French Cognos Analytics UI he should be directed to a French IBM help web page. This was the case within previous versions (e.g. Cognos 10.2.1, 8 & CRN1.1 MR4)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make IDAA SQL Extensions available to the Db2 SQL API

By attaching an IDAA to our Db2 for z/OS we are adding analytics capability to the mainframe. Our data scientists are starting to exploit the capability, but need more SQL functionality (scalar functions) to be able to do analytics on all types of...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Custom/User Defined calculation should respect underlying calculation logic in the application design.

Custom/User Defined calculation feature in PAW should calculate any Percentage/average for the selected Measures considering the calculation logic designed in TM1 but for measures that are Averages or % for example, PAW currently would only give a...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration