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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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UNIQUE INDEXES over BIGINT column can't be compressed

unique indexes over id columns (bigint) are not compressed whereas the same unique index over decimal column gets compressedindex compression for unique indexes is urgently needed to reduce disk and memory footprint
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Show more info on asset in the Knowledge Catalog

In general the information shown on any asset in the Knowledge Catalog UI is fairly minimal, both on the overview page as well as the details page. Consider adding: - size information for files - record count information for data base tables etc...
almost 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

generate REDO SQL for RI actions

HiOur DBAs would like to have REDO statements for any RI-action generate by DB2 (e.g Delete Cascade). At the moment ALA is assuming that the RI defined on the source system also is defined on the target system. snip from the manual:As previously m...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Under review

Event Studio: Allow copy/paste of Data items between Event Studio (Like report studio)

enable copy and paste data item objects.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control package based routing options in deployment process

Assuming package based routing is set in a production environment. The routing properties will be overwritten and are unset after importing a deployment file that was created in an environment without packaged based routing. The requested function...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Standard errors of skewness and kurtosis are all the same for a set of variables

Modeler 18.1.1About those values of "Skewness Std. Err" and "Kurtosis Std. Err" of "Data Audit" node.In the current specification,the standard errors for these two statistics are the same for all of my fields, regardless of the values of the skewn...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

PAX - Add Open Recent Files to Open Icon on Ribbon or within Open Window

Within PAX, we are requesting the ability to open recent files from the Open icon on the ribbon or within the Open dialog window. If you exit PAX after opening a report and log back in, you are always forced to navigate the folder structure from t...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

PAX Action Button Refresh - Execute Calculation Options before display Success/Failure Message

In Perspectives once an action button runs a TurboIntegrator process, the "Calculations" section under Options is applied first then the success/failure messages are displayed. This allows the developer to have custom success/failure messages whic...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Competitive WDS pricing plans for GTS

GTS, one of our big IBM internal clients use Elastic search instead of Discovery. Their key pain point is the pricing for WDS. With Elastic Search they pay $20 / month and get similar capability and results. GTS wants to see a better pricing model...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration