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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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133 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

API to automate webcrawl in Watson Discovery

Please make an API available in Discovery v2 where you specify a web crawl configuration with URLs programmatically. Defining the maximum links is good but how can i be sure if crawls all the sites that i want it to.
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Provide HASH scalar function support in query acceleration

Our data science team heavily user HASH scalar function in day to day business in complex SQL processing. Unfortunately, it is not supported in current IDAA version 7.5.12. and forces to route to native DB2z. It takes long time and requires heavy ...
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Arrangement of Default and Custom Facts

Enables users to rearrange both default and custom facts on both the Model Usecase and Model in Factsheets.

Ability to encrypt when downloading the Fraud Rules list

Rules (fraud rules) are considered confidential and require controls to allow them to be exported (via the download CSV export option) in a secured manor. Create a configuration option to allow rules export to be encrypted. Currently, There is a s...
21 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

PAW column widths

The column widths should reflect the size of the contents - or at least have a toggle to ask for it. Currently, small values or big values, the column width is fixed and needs to be set upfront. How do we know whether the user requests aggregated,...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Have the ability to export the "Audit Trail" and "Compare Revision" features in the Revision Control tab.

Clients can have the ability to export that information outside of the tool for documentation purposes.
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted