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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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PAW: clickable hyperlink in cell of cube view

In Planning Analytics Workspace, allow clickable hyperlinks in cells of cube views.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Future consideration

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

job comparison between different environments (like in 11.7)

Currently in 11.7 - there is an option to compare the jobs between different environments. It helps to identify what actually changed comparing to the production copy and helps for UAT. The same options is missing in CP4D.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Submitted

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Legend sort in charts according to the selected set, even with the zero suppressioin

At the moment if you show the legend for your chart, it doesnt matter what type of charts, you cannot use the zero suppression for sure. The sorting order is functioning not according to your set but according to your values, it is not practical a...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Under review

Support JMX metric Statistics for Kafka Consumer for IBM TCC Library product

It would be most helpful for Kafka performance tuning if there was a JMX metrics report for the Kafka consumer to analysis JMX stats for latency report. Could we dump the JMX values to a file the user provides as part of the IBM TCC Library API? T...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration