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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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Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add "Last Execution Status " in the Scheduler Grid View

The "Last Execution Status" field is currently not visible in the Grid View under Solution Configuration - Scheduler. By making this field visible in the grid view, it will provide users with a convenient way to check the last execution status of ...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

alternate name for special register CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY > APPLCOMPAT

is it possible to introduce alternate name or short version of "CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY"? On a regular basis, we usually want to validate the applcompat of our system for informative purposes so we do: SELECT CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIB...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Burst Report - Dynamic Email Subject

The ability for bursting via email to have a dynamic email subject. Currently able to add HTML report to email body - would be useful to add a subject line in a similar way.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

help in the cleaning of package versions

We'd like to have a new ZPARM to limit the max number of version for packages. Once this number is reached a new version replaces the older one. Otherwise a COMMAND like MODIFY to facilitate DBA in housecleaning
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists