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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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Add Custom Icons SVG

I'd like to be able to add custom SVG icon/pictogram into a book. It could be reached with an image URL, but it would need to allow SVG+XML format, which is not compatible currently. There is a very good Carbon library that we could use to create ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prevent users with CONNECT role to perform "update statistics ... low"

Prevent users with CONNECT role to perform "update statistics ... low" In some customers in GCG, such as Hong Kong HA and CIB found that the user with CONNECT role can perform "update statistics ... low" statement, and that would cause performance...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Lineage for Folder

In 11.1.7 FP1 there is no option to check lineage on the folder. This prohibits end users to see where the folder exist especially when we have nested levels and namespaces in a big package
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

User experience in virtualized results

We are unable to join more than 2 views at a time in DV UI. If we have 4 views that need to be joined, we have to first join 1 and 2 together as view A, then 3 and 4 together as view B, then we can join those newly joined A and B views together. W...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Planned for future release

Rename table does not execute a drop-create of the foreign keys.

If there are constraints on table, "rename" table results SQL0750. There is no easy way to rename table like other DBMS in Db2.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Adding session close info into INFO log.

When the SSM is running as normal level log, we need to have into info logs all metrics that will be interesting to know when we reach SSM limitation. THe most important metric for use to have is : - Active live session- Yield taskbut others metri...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Future consideration

User experience in virtualized results

There are multiple data source connection in DV for the same data source (HANA in this case) with different user authentication details. Connection names are not defined in the list of views that are pulled from data source connections and hence, ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration