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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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Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Ingest json files from cloud object storage

In the current version of the product is not possible to ingest json files from the bucket itself, it has to be from an external table and being a bucket of thousands and thousands of files makes this option unfeasible, we need to be able to inges...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

EXPLAIN(ONLY) should create no locks

We did an rebind packages with EXPLAIN(ONLY) with an owner change and got into problems because rebind phase-in was not used. So there were a lot of locks which caused timeouts. The owner change for EXPLAIN(ONLY) is needed for a vendor tool. We th...
28 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Ask Tableau to support connectivity with Netezza Performance Server for AWS

- Why is it useful?If Tableau supports connectivity with Netezza Performance Server (NPS) for AWS, Tableau users can connect to NPS by using Tableau connector. According to below Tableau document, NPS is not supported. PDA (old Netezza) is support...
2 days ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Ability to check storage performance

After moving to the cloud, in particular, managed service a user loses the ability to verify storage performance. There should be a stored procedure that allows such a possibility. Basic metrics, like IOPS, bandwidth, etc. Such a service would bui...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Increase limitation of Head file system

Hello Team, Currently we have limitation of head file system and we are sometimes having free space issues and we are manually getting the FODC dumps deleted for freeing up the space. Can we remove the limitation and increase the head file system ...
3 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Removing LDAP Dependency to migrate IGC to IKG

The proposed enhancement aims to remove the constraint within the migration tool, eliminating the requirement for both the source and destination systems to be connected to the same LDAP. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for clients in ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted