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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

JSON and JSONB maximum size on NPS

Message systems like Kafka are often used as an enterprise nervous system for data. A datawarehouse like Netezza Performance Server needs to be able to consume this data for analysis and reporting. Most organizations prefer the loading of their da...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for runstats profiles

Enhance the Administration tool when accessing objects via the system catalog, table info. When using the RP(runstats profiles) at the table level it shows just a portion of the data in the profile_text column from the SYSIBM.SYSTABLES_PROFILES. E...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

AI Assistant on the welcome page

To use AI Assistant, the user needs to be inside a data model or data package. However; it would be more efficient if it can be displayed on the welcome screen so the user can use AI Assistant to navigate and browse entire data sets and select one...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Folder in Dynamic Cube dimensions

When modeling Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Cube Designer, it would be very usefull to group Dimensions assigned to Cubes into Folders.As a reference, we would need the same way available in "Measure modeling", where we can group measures into "measur...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase field and column for WORKSTATION_TRAN and CLIENT_APPLNAME

We would like that CQM’s “WORKSTATION TRAN” field and the corresponding column “WORKSTATION_TRAN” in the CQM_SUMM_METRICS table can span the full name. The CLIENT_APPLNAME in DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE is declared varchar(255) FOR MIXED DATA and that woul...
10 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Do not save outputs for report in jobs delivered by email

Hello, when we launch a job with several report views inside and select delivery method as "Send a link to the reports by email", we have to select also "Save the reports" otherwise there is an warning message! By doing this the output will be sav...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Data Protection Rules

Include an option to export data protection rules. In 3.5.3 there is only an option to export governance rules.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Support data entry shortcuts in PAx Reports

PAx has the ability to support Expansions via JSON expressions to define macros for data entry (ex: 5k is translated to 5,000), but these macros are only available for data entry directly in the cube viewer. Request to expand this to all valid dat...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration