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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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Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics: Upgrade PDF version of generated reports

Cognos Analytics generates PDF version 1.4 by default. Customer is trying to digitally sign this PDF using a third party application and it requires PDF version to be at least 1.5 or higher. Is there any way to upgrade PDF version of reports gener...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dark mode option for the screen.

Staying hours in front of the screen is pretty exhausting for the eyes of fraud analysts. An option to turn it in dark mode will help to lower the stress on the eyes. Also colors will be more visible.
about 1 month ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Add support on Windows 11 to MDM AE 12.0

As Windows 10 is being phased out on the customer and they are not considering the migration to MDM AE 14.0 for the time being, there is a need to add support to Windows 11 for MDM AE 12.0.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 2 Functionality already exists

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
2 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Display Action Status on Folders in watsonx Assistant

In watsonx Assistant, each action has a status, and if it is red, it indicates an error. However, when the action is inside a folder, you need to access the folder to check the status. The suggested improvement is to display the status directly on...
27 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Universal Watson Discovery

Universal Watson Discovery could be a powerful AI-driven knowledge and financial intelligence system, integrating IBM Watson Discovery's NLP, AI search, and document analysis with your broader Open Wealth Autonomous Nexus (OWAN), Nano Inheritance ...
5 days ago in Watson Discovery 2 Submitted

COPY NO Indexes to be recorded in SYSLGRNX

It would be very helpful if ALL indexes are recorded in SYSLGRNX which will then open the possibility for a BACKOUT YES recovery for all TS+IX and avoid a potentially costly and long REBUILD INDEX for some very large tables and when backing out a ...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

How to show data quality shown in column/lineage for special data quality measurement cases?

Your goal is to show the data quality on the lineage, right? We have a couple "special cases" we're not sure how to handle. First is related to "virtual tables" (as in IA terminology - I believe they are called something else in IKC). The Data rul...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration