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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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New Db2 ZPARM for specifying SMS storage & management classes for FlashCopy image copies

When doing FlashCopy image copies the Db2 utilities create image copies by ADRDSSU and it passes the same SMS storage & management classes as the Db2 spaces.This is not always wanted as the performance and management requirements are in most c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
8 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Submitted

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Add object Tags to be reportable in Cognos

Tags are a great function within OpenPages. As a 'flag' that can be searched on this also needs to be added to the reporting framework so it can be utilised by Cognos. This will replicate the same behaviour when exporting objects with multiple ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Runtime resource files - support for encryption and decryption at runtime within the pipeline using keys from azure key vault

Humana is successful with using exec function in credential store by fetching encryption keys from Azure key vault. They are looking for similar feature/implementation for resource files, specifically encrypting resource files and decrypting them ...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Don't deleted RD Related Values before a new import

When importing related values in a reference dataset in CP4D the previous related values are removed first before importing the new RVs. For crosswalks, this has a significant impact. To illustrate we have the following tables: -ISO Alpha2 Country...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

PAfE installation guide on Azure Virtual Desktop

It is a very common practice for organization to deploy application via VDI approach such as AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop). This is a very common practice and currently my organization is informed by IBM Support that this has not been officially sup...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Folder Level Export

We are commenced our development work with CP4D and trying to migrate the flows and pipelines to CP4D model environment manually. When look for option to export on folder wise there is no option to export. It only allowing us to have individual ob...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Needs more information

Bulk edit capability for categories

Content admins have a need to update certain properties/relationships/parent category of a set of categories in bulk; example case is to move a list of categories from one parent category to another in bulk
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Allow Notebooks to be deployed to Deployment Space

The inconsistency of what can be deployed to a Space seems in need of attention. We should be able to deploy a Jupyter Notebook to a deployment space. We have been using notebooks as job controllers in a sense, for datastage flows/pipelines, and b...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted