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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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PAW - View a small text base file in Drive Explorer

This used to be easy on the rich-layer, but with PAW and Drive Explorer - can we have a viewer for small text based files that you can add to favourites like txt/html/ps1/cfg ? It can also be a widget for a paw book like a frame that points to a f...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add Catalog filter to Display Duplicate Assets

Original title: Display Duplicate Assets in publish job logs. Original Description: When viewing the logs for a metadata publish job in IKC, the number of duplicate assets is displayed, but the assets themselves are not. It would be useful to know...
11 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
22 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Please provide a bresources option where we can find the default reservation unit per defined resource: job, task, host

Currently, it's not strait forward for a user to be able to see what the default reservation units are for things like memory, swap, license resources, etc. It would be nice if there were a bresources option to show the default allocation unit's f...
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
26 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
30 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

TS016588496: MAX_LOG setting for User vs System Activities, 2003 (MQRC_BACKED_OUT)

As documented in PMR TS016588496, a QRep configuration may fail to apply a transaction to a target system due to exceeding the MQ Log configuration. At the DB layer, the configuration setting MAX_LOG manages how large a transaction may be in terms...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Future consideration

Manta support for Informatica Cloud (IICS/IDMC)

AbbVie has many workflows using Informatica Cloud not Informatica Power Center. In order to see lineage across systems we need to be able to scan the lineage from Informatica Cloud as well. Informatica Power Center (IFPC) Manta connector is workin...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration