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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Add Support for Hash and Hash iterator Objects in SAS Code Scanner

CWB leverages Hash and Hash Iterator Objects in our SAS code. Manta currently fails to parse these which has resulted in gaps in lineage, preventing end to end lineage . The details of the needed HASH support can be found here: https://documentati...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Hide the levels in the Cube Viewer in PAfE

If you have opened a cube in PAfE, you can also see the level in the objects. We currently have a lot of levels, some of which are not well structured. Is it possible to hide the levels when you open them?
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Snowflake Bulk not able to read from read-only database due to the temporary file format.

When Snowflake Bulk stage tries to read from a read-only database, it fails with the message: "Could not create a temporary file format (SNOWFLAKE_47)" due to the lack of permissions to create the file format object in the source database. This is...
15 days ago in StreamSets 1 Submitted

Retrieve IDAA trace data in background

In Admin Tool you can retrieve trace data for the accelerator using Z;AC and then line command TR. We would prefer to do that using Admin Tool instead of Data Studio. But there is a problem. The process run in foreground mode so the ISPF session i...
22 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Support for AWS RDS Oracle for the database for OpenPages

My client have a strategic direction to SaaS / Cloud and are looking to move away from hosting Oracle and leveraging Amazons RDS for Oracle. The benefit to client is removing the responsibilities of common database management tasks, such as hardwa...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 1 Submitted

PA Cell Comment feature enhancement

Comment is a very useful feature for PA users, especially to maximize centralised interaction. This can be a powerful feature to differentiate with other analytics product offerings. However cell commenting feature is quite limited. As business pa...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
4 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted