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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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An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Delivered

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add dedicated Label field to x-axis Reporting Line Chart

Line charts allow nesting data items on x-axis. X-axis also allows sorting. However, if first item on x-axis is numeric, and second is text, then the chart will render with the output concatenating both data items into one string. This will overri...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

to be able to define drill through on any other package, not only supported on default package

We developed some reports with multiple packages. We are trying to define more than 1 drill through definitions on one report. On this report, the first drill through definition is successfully created after we set the package as default. The seco...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Show DB2 Recovery progress status in the db2 master log

Improve the messaging in the db2 log in order to be able to have a better idea of the progress of a recovery and how long it might take. For instance, currently message DSNR048I is issued every 2 minutes during abort recovery. It would be very hel...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages / AI Factsheet synchronisation should honor the Title field uniqueness for prompt templates

When 2 prompt templates are created in AI Factsheet with same Title name AND autonaming is enabled in OpenPages, then synchronisation with OpenPages will replace the Title of the 2nd prompt template by an ID assigned by auto-naming . This causes t...
6 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration