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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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Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

filter the items in the Data Catalog by the governance artifacts assigned to it

Wants the ability to filter the items in the Data Catalog by the governance artifacts assigned to it. Currently only able to filter by 'Asset Type', 'Connection Source' and 'Tags'. We want to filter by 'Classification' assigned to be able to see t...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Enhance PAW Security

Add functionality to assign Workbook security by group. Currently it is done by user.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Need filter on every column and sort functionality in MDI/MDE Screen

WKC MDI/MDE screen is not user friendly. It does not allow to filter any columns or sort function is not there. during the troubleshooting, we are not able to dissect any tables other than manually look at each page. we have MDI's which are too la...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
9 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to view attributes in PAX or PAW Cube Viewer (not just via hierarchies).

The cube viewer in PAX has the ability to “show attributes” in a cube view (see attached screen shot). Can this functionality be added to the regular cube viewer in PAW and a PAX Exploration?
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Faster Data Clear

We would like the ability to clear data in a cubes faster than we can today. Today, a ViewClear simply writes a zero into every populated cell in the view. In most use cases we are simply attempting to clear an entire scenario and reload. So in ou...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add Sort Option to Map visualization

We want to visualize monitoring alert data on a geo map. Every alert has a severity value and a related color (red=critical, ...). Currently there is no sort option availailable for e.g. the map point color data item. As a sort option is also avai...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists