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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.

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Graphs and visualizations, trends, automatically display zero point data

When trending data (for example sales or counts per month) with a line graph, CA omits months from the trend graph that do not have sales or counts. This does not represent the trend correctly since it is important that there were no sales or coun...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve Cognos Analytics integration with Salesforce

Current state IBM Cognos Analytics ability to integrate with / pull metadata from Salesforce is extremely limited. Unable to select tables/schemas using new "Manage" administration functionality or create data modules using Salesforce data. Legacy...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
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HADR ROS for Db2 Purescale

Merged
Right now, Db2 Purescale primary operational databases are delivering transactional data services in a primary location. Meantime in a secondary location, owning the same Purescale configuration and computing capability is running the HADR seconda...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Parameter Store that can save values from skill responses and requests.

How does it work: Some kind of string datastore, that is shared between all skills. Skills can optionally pull from this datastore every time they are run, and also save to this data store. These settings can be treated as input for skills in the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

DB2 PureScale to Support Oversubscription of Storage in IBM Flash System

The IBM Flash System (FS7300) does such as good job at real time data compression that I am achieving almost 5:1 compression on one of my environments (31TB Written = 6.4TB Physically consumed). So, while it has 80% of the storage allocated to IBM...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

New behavior added to DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT

SELECT CHAR(DECIMAL(1.92,15,2),',') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 For Db2 z/OS we use setting BIF_COMPATIBILITY = V9_DECIMAL_VARCHAR For this statement we get following results (for Db2 LUW we have parameter DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT set to NEW) : Database Value Da...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Under review

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration