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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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Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

load privilages should not affect runstants

RS should not require load authority Authorization For a table, you require one of the following authorities: •SYSADM•SYSCTRL•SYSMAINT•DBADM•SQLADM•CONTROL privilege on the table•LOAD authority
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

SP monitoring

Make monitoring/control of SP via WLM easier.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

rsccompdict table shrink

When using compression in informix products, a special rsccompdict table is created to store dictionaries.This table can be a big one and it is stored at dbspace level.When you drop some databases, tables, purge dictionaries, this table can be emp...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

CUH monitor consolidation

-Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points Users know how many CUHs they are using from Watson Studio administration console. Users know how many CUHs they are using from IBM Cloud console. Users don't know the exact...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Optimization access paths currently used for SELECTs should also apply to UPDATEs (and DELETEs)

Currently, as I write a SELECT query with a correlated Sub-select (and no other predicates), I see that the optimization for that query uses a non-correlated sub-select and the query runs very fast. But, if I use exactly the same predicate, but wr...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration