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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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db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple cache states for virtual dynamic cubes

Current design allows two cache states per dynamic cube, ie. to allow reports to be successfully executed, during a member cache refresh. With virtual cube this exposes a errornous situation, when the member cache of both base cubes are refreshed ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue with DQ Rules for TIMESTAMP Data Type

We have compared data from Snowflake (SF) and IA. So when we bring in a table from SF into IA it is updating any column that is a data type “Timestamp” and the value for that column ends with a “0” Changing the value for the column to add a “T” wh...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

'Publish asset' permission in Watson Query

Customer requests a new permission in Watson Query to 'publish asset'. This permission should be assignable to any user, regardless of their WQ role. This new permission would provide customers with the flexibility to determine which specific user...
9 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

enhancement of behavior of common data download in hybrid environment

With current design, when SIM fails to download common data due to network error or any other problem, SIM will hang there and does not sense the error at all. This error is quick common in hybrid environment these days. For example, we've grids o...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Not under consideration

Roll-up on Dynamic Cubes when using security

Making Roll-up available when securing a Dynamic Cube
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

alternating colors of rows and columns in report studio crosstab

I want to have an easy way to add alternating colors of rows and columns in a report studio crosstab.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Add a parameter to disable "unpopulated cells" spreads

The spread types "Repeat leaves" and "Equal leaves" have very dangerous options to spread to all leaf cells instead of populated ones. In a large cube with many dimensions containing many elements, the number of empty cells to write on jumps very ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration