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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 Custom Icons SVG

I'd like to be able to add custom SVG icon/pictogram into a book. It could be reached with an image URL, but it would need to allow SVG+XML format, which is not compatible currently. There is a very good Carbon library that we could use to create ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance IBM delivered functions SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV so third parameter goes beyond 1M.

Currently, the third parameter for IBM delivered functions SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV is limited to 1M. This is rather restrictive. We would like to use this function with an input of at least 2M (at least for now). I opened a PMR and they describe...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lineage for Folder

In 11.1.7 FP1 there is no option to check lineage on the folder. This prohibits end users to see where the folder exist especially when we have nested levels and namespaces in a big package
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

User experience in virtualized results

We are unable to join more than 2 views at a time in DV UI. If we have 4 views that need to be joined, we have to first join 1 and 2 together as view A, then 3 and 4 together as view B, then we can join those newly joined A and B views together. W...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Planned for future release

Improve storage limitation for -DIS PROCEDURE(*.*) SCOPE(GROUP) command

When we execute DISPLAY PROCEDURE (*.*) SCOPE GROUP in a datasharing system with large number and intensive use of stored procedures we get either of the following messages: DSNX978I -DBAI DISPLAY TERMINATED DUE TO INSUFFICIENT MESSAGE SPACE DSNX9...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Adding session close info into INFO log.

When the SSM is running as normal level log, we need to have into info logs all metrics that will be interesting to know when we reach SSM limitation. THe most important metric for use to have is : - Active live session- Yield taskbut others metri...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Future consideration

User experience in virtualized results

There are multiple data source connection in DV for the same data source (HANA in this case) with different user authentication details. Connection names are not defined in the list of views that are pulled from data source connections and hence, ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions higher than 11 (i.e.12,13)

According to the IBM, the following document is available online in regards to DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions, it only has until SLES Version 11: http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compa...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Nordic lanaguage accelerator

We experienced that local customers especially customer with executives titles would prefer a local language based CP4D. Usually, their customer target is local customer. A local language is preferable in this situation.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration