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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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Ability for DVM subsystem started task ID use an alternative ID when connecting to other systems (DB2, IMS, JGate,etc.)

The ID that we use to run DVM is not able to connect to other systems (DB2, IMS, JGate,etc.) via password, passticket, etc. During startup, DVM attempts to connect to these systems in order to collect metadata. These connections fail, which causes...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

New UI – Lookup dopdown does not display any value for attributes whose value is already set

Issue Description: In New UI, when lookup display is set as dropdown, the dropdown does not display any values, for attributes whose value is already set. You need to clear old value to see all the values in dropdown. There should not be any need ...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

New UI – Redirect to Single Edit of Collaboration Area if item is already checked out

In New UI, if the item is already checked out, clicking the button “Checkout” displays below error message: It should be extended such that instead of displaying the error message, UI just opens the item in Single Edit of Collaboration Area.
over 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

New UI – Clicking on checked out icon in Multi Edit should open the item in Collaboration Area

RFE Description: In New UI, it is very difficult and cumbersome to find and open the item in Collaboration Area. Multi Edit in Catalog, Search or Elastic Search today displays the status of the item whether it’s checked out or not. This can be fu...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

New UI – Search within Collaboration Areas

In New UI, today we can search for items within a Catalog in multiple ways. However, we there’s no way to do so in Collaboration Areas. Consider a following use case: A user is working with 4-5 Collaboration Areas and each area consists of 2-3 ste...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Modeling data in DB2 SMF when acceleration turned on

We have been modeling IDAA data for one of our production DB2 environments while testing the IDAA on our test systems. When we turn modeling on in the production system the modeling data will no longer be generated. Our capacity team would like to...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Including Gateway as Default Installation

When installing Cognos Analytics, always require to choose "Optional Gateway" explicitly, and sometimes even selected, it doesn't really install properly. In some case, we may need to install Informix using Easy Install, which is the only way, b...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Field limits to apply for the Add New screen

Currently when in the Add New screen the field limits are not honoured, but in the edit screen they are. It would be good to have the Add New the same .e.g. 75 character text limits are honoured as per the edit screen.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

When creating an object the asterisk which shows the mandatory fields is small and difficult to see.

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over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

When testing a setup change on the FS37 system at IBM, there was a typo in one of the Collectors. This raised errors in the log (see screen shot of system log), and these errors should have kept the release from activating. However, the BR UI showed the new release as Active (see screen shot of UI).

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over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Delivered