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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 attachment file name to the schedule report "View run history" status screen

Please add the attachment report name to the schedule report's "View run history" screen so that Admins can see what report was attached to the scheduled report and was distributed.Also, if the attachment is different then the actual report name, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Develop a collection of REST APIs and SDKs that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio functions

Develop functions that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio activities in Python like: 1- Upload entities and relationships 2- Upload dicts associating it to entities 3- Upload files to be annotate 4- Run annotators, specially dictionnary...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 Not under consideration

Enhance memory allocation when replicating wide tables to webhdfs

To avoid webhdfs BufferOverflowException errors the workaround is to set hdfs_write_cache_mb to total size of table x 4 in MB.The memory allocated at startup of the subscription is the hdfs_write_cache_mb * # of tables regardless of the width of e...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Info-sphere Connector Stage for Oracle Sales Cloud

IOOF currently using Oracle Sales Cloud CRM and IBM Infosphere Information Server for our data integration needs. Currently there is no way to directly read or write Oracle Sales Cloud data. Thats's why we can't integrate data with Oarcle Sales cl...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support leading unstructured data sources across a variety of market segments

Watson Discovery is highly oriented to search and text analytics use cases which revolve heavily around unstructured data sources. Currently the Watson Discovery service lacks out of the box connectivity to a large number of key data sources inclu...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Functionality already exists

Provide datasource name as a package property

Provide the ability for a user to view the package datasource name from the package properties within Team / Group Content.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Math function changes in Db2 12

POWER Built-in function got rewritten and so I am hoping to get a list of all changed built-in functions in Db2 12 so that I can do better testing before going into production.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration