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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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can we default the asset name, tags and include column metadata for relational data when adding to catalog through a connection to relational data

To make it quicker to populate a catalog, it would be great if there were defaults for asset names - based on the selected schema/table picked. This should also import the descriptions of the column names/types which will be useful for end user to...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable profile filtrering by connection type identifying remote requester

I need to pick up only the queries which come in from remote requesters thru DRDA and which is the remote requester. At the moment I can only identify through the DISTSERV plan and maybe DSNTIAUL . Query Monitor doesnt show from which remote reque...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Post profit&loss automatically in Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Controller Classic there is a functionality in import specifications to transfer profit&loss automatically to a P&L account in the balance sheet. This functionality does not exist in the WEB import. We would like to see this func...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Use mapped user rather than UID in SQLTRACE data

When getting ready to use mapped users, we have found that SQLTRACE does not distinguish the externally named users, but rather uses the local systerm's mapped user UID. This is a security and usability issue. From the usability standpoint, there ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

RTM - increase maximum export rows dropdown

please increase the maximum number of export rows available (grid_xport_rows) up to at least 200k
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Deploy models programmatically

I'd like to automate the process of building, training, and deploying NLU models. This is a larger feature track of work.
almost 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Not under consideration

add 'from_host' field in 'Batch Job Filters'

add a new 'From Host' field in the 'Batch Job Filters' of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view to select jobs submitted from a specific host
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release