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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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Index on expression should be used when outer join is rewritten (by the optimizer) as an inner join

When coding the following query (or, generalized query), an index on expression for UPPER(RTRIM(TABB.COLA)) is not used: SELECT ... FROM .... TABA LEFT JOIN TABB ON .... WHERE UPPER(RTRIM(TABB.COLA)) = ? In the above query, it is (originally) writ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Tab - be able to see how often ALL intents are used within the date range

The "Top Intents" report is nice, but for anything other than a trivial system the top 10 intents will fill up with intents that commonly come up within handling of a complex flow. Larger customers will get more benefit out of being able to see ho...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics -Search for active directory groups in OIDC OKTA namespace in Cognos when OKTA and active directory synced

System: Cognos analytics security and access restriction with OIDC configuration Required feature : Require to search for Active directory groups in OKTA OIDC namespace configured in cognos when OKTA is synced with Active Directory Description :Co...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Kafka Connector should support schema compatibility set to FULL

Kafka Connector job failed with schema compatibility mode set to FULL. We got error "Schema being registered is incompatible with an earlier schema; error code: 409". Currently user has to change the Kafka schema compatibility mode to NONE from Po...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Allow a single SMTPE to be used for multiple DIREs

We have a need for IT administrative staff to have 2 profiles. One with lesser permissions for everyday tasks and one with additional monitoring and security. Both profiles need the ability to run the SNDSMTPEMM command form within various applica...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Sync Cognos Analytics with PAW when removing users

Hello, To add a user, We first invite the user from PAW, User accepts and then if the user is a Cognos Controller user, we have to add the user in a Controller Users group for user to be able to access Controller. If a user leaves and we delete th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Temp folder when using TM1Web should clear itself periodically by PASS.

When using TM1Web in some projects, Excel sheets that are published in a web application create temp files when they are opened. These are generated in "C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1web\webapps\tm1web\excelsheet", i.e. in the installation direct...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for the bulk update of a secondary specification in PIM V12

We have over 300 secondary specs defined within our implementation of PIM. We can assign one of these secondary specs to a level of our merch hierarchy. Due to the disparate nature of our secondary specs, we need the ability to be able to select a...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Spell check for comments in syntax editor

When commenting syntax in SPSS it's very frustrating that it doesn't spell-check (even the web browser I'm using does this!). This should be applied narrowly to comments only. At the moment, if I'm heavily commenting code, I will copy/paste it to ...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration