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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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In PAW, add option to overwrite existing asset/book when we copy/paste or move an asset to another folder

in Planning Analytics Workspace 'Report and Analytics', when trying to copy/paste or move an asset/book from one folder to another (for example from Personal to Shared, after having imported a new version of some report through Lifecycle Manager),...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

new aggregated WLM threshold for LOCKLIST at workload/service class level

We have MAXLOCK db-cfg parameter which can be used to avoid a single connection (UOW) to consume the LOCKLIST space. But this parameter some times it not enough. I have seen LOCK escalation cases happening (which locked system tables, causing huge...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

Show dependacy on a data module

Client would like to have a feature in the product that shows the dependency on a data module, which reports and dashboards it is used in.A a data module used in dashboards or reports is deleted, the dashboard fails to render successfully. To avoi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhanced host monitoring

On previous generation MAKO20 system, we were able to monitor the HOST machine resources (CPU, MEMORY, FABRIC, DISK) by using NZ_SYSUTIL_HISTORY table provided out of the box. On new generation of the system (IPS), we can still do it, but the HOST...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Calendar Month added to filter Operations

​ In order to create a monthly overview as part of a filter condition, you currently have to use the "In the range" operation and enter a start and a end date. This period must be renewed regularly. In order to automate this process, it should be ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Enhance dbschema to generate SQL for sysuser entries

The sysadmin users is used to store: PAM trusted users (sysauth) trusted contexts (systcxusers, systcxattributes, systrustedcontext) local users (syssurrogates, sysusermap) Dbschema should be extended to allow generated DDL for: trusted...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Increase the length of Informix usernames

Within Informix the username is defined as char(32). The Informix feature "Informix trusted context" enable Informix to be used with Federated Authentication, in such cases the impersonated user is identified using an email address. In view of thi...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Symphony / Conductor - reporting access granularity

A user who wishes to access the reporting capabilities of Symphony and Conductor must be given a role that allows access to Reports and PERF. Once that’s done, the user can view metrics reports from the whole cluster which is something only Admins...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Future consideration

Symphony Alerting / notification mechanism through Webhooks

Spectrum Symphony and Spectrum Conductor are cluster managemet solutions that orchestrate running distributed workloads on a multitude of servers in the cluster. As such, they need to konw the state of the servers in the cluster. Traditionally, cl...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Future consideration

Heat Map requires a Red Amber Green colour palette range

The standard for heat map colouring is a RAG colour range, at the moment the palettes are shades of a single colour from light to dark. The Metrics chart that was recently removed used these principals for charting a Scorecard
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration