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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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Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

High Contrast Option in PAW for Color Blind Users - Accessibility Enhancement

I have a user who is struggling with differentiating rows in a cube view and reporting in PAW. The current white/grey coloring of every other row does not work for the user with color blindness, when trying to differentiate rows in a report over m...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add parameters to SubsetMDXSet and HierarchySubsetMDXSet to allow invalid/null MDX expressions

SubsetCreateByMDX has a parameter to allow MDX expressions to save even if they evaluate to null or invalid. There should be an equivalent parameter added to the following functions - HierarchySubsetMDXSet - SubsetMDXSet Reason is a lot of times s...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

ViewSubsetAssign should update the underlying vue file

ViewSubsetAssign should update the vue file on disk. The reason is on server restart, it uses the vue file to render the view.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes

Customer is using 4.8.1 version of CP4D and actively using DataStage and WS pipelines. Below scenario is for both DataStage flows and Watson Pipelines as well. Currently multiple users can simultaneously open the same flow and make changes without...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I would like to understand if there are cases w...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted