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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.

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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Hide Schedule Priorities from users or govern which priority numbers users have access to

We want to apply some priorities to schedules that belong to users. As admins of the system we want some users to be able to create schedules but we want to maintain the priorities of the list. If we remove the capability then the schedules always...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Backup DATASTOR and DISCOVER into GDG; allow only one user to access TCz

1) Automate the backup of DATASTOR and DISCOVER to a GDG at every invocation of TCz. 2) Limit access to one UID to prevent multiple individuals stepping on each other's work.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EXTFILE size needs to be in TCz

The size of the EXTFILE is actually hard coded in the skeleton. Other than reducing the scan range (currently 3 and 7 hrs), we can recommend updating the skeleton. For the transaction scan, you can edit SARYSLIB members ARYINBX (currently line 90)...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WS Project Export should include ALL project objects including AutoAI Experiments

When a business user perfroms an Project Export they expect that all object associated with a Watson Studio project will be exported. Users often use Project Exports as a method to recover a Project (backup-recovery scenario). However, AutoAI-Expe...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

HAA - when doing a Pending Data Change, such as DSSIZE, reorgs are generated at partition level instead of being escalated up to TS level

Changing the DSSIZE on a PBR. The entire TS must be reorged to apply the pending data change. I have coded the object set to accomplish this. The automation tool should have the intelligence to do this. I need also to do this for a DPSI index, cha...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Customer requires the ability to change IBM ID generated passwords for their security compliance.

IBM creates all passwords for local accounts, which can’t be changed by AbbVie following issuance. The platform does not enable the selection of AbbVie compliant passwords or to manage other password behaviors such as lockout.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate admin functions based email.. Alias for admin.

IBM ID is associated with the email used to register. Clients would like different functions based on login, e.g. operator or admin
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration