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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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Have the ability of changing resource definition credentials programmatically instead of through the Deployment Manager Client

This would allow admins to change the spss resource definition passwords using automation, rotating them more frequently and making the accounts used in the application more secure.
11 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted

Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
11 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

IA GUI does not display decimal trailing 0s

IA GUI does not display decimal .00; if decimal .50, it displays only .5, but if decimal .15, it normally displays. when they check in the Database, they have a decimal .00, and then check on the thin client it has a decimal .0000000000 Can we mod...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
12 days ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
12 days ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Enhanced recovery performance improvement

We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
3 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted

PAW - add authentication support by username/password to git repository

Hi, Currently, only authentication by SSH key is possible for pushing/getting TM1 objects inside a git repository. An authentication by username/password should be available too. Some companies, inside Github, disable the possibility to use SSH ke...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration