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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 menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

First of all please include Log Analysis for red hat in your Product pick list. Second, I have successfully implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Log Analysis. The development team sent me instructions. I would like to see this RBAC in a future release

We operate in a multi-tenant environment. Users do not want to see (or in some cases not permitted to see) events unrelated to their roles. IBM developers have come up with an ingenious way to implement RBAC for Log Analysis.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Allow package extensions to be added via UI

Often clients develop their own python packaes & libraries Not every client has a binary repository manager such as artifactory Clients can add their own libraries in WML using package extensions Currently those can only be created using the w...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

REORG TABLESPACE WHERE LIMITKEY BETWEEN X and Y

With the ADD PART and ROTATE, the logical and physical partitions on a tablespace can be out of ORDER. Current REORG at PART Level is for physical partitions, and requires DBA to search catalog to find all required PARTS.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rows per page in HTML Reports - Say 1000 at global level

Require a way to load all the pages when run as HTML as their user do not like the page down or up options. currently they are using "Rows per page in HTML Reports" to reduce number of pages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic deletion of unneeded archive logs

The following directories of c-db2u-dv-db2u-0 will continue to accumulate archive logs regardless of how often the user uses them. /mnt/bludata0/db2/archive_log/db2inst1/BIGSQL/NODE0000/LOGSTREAM0000/C0000000 If left unattended, the file system m...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Choosing NPS version during provisioning

It would be helpful to provide flexibility to our customers to chose NPS version while we provision the system. Cloud offering could potentially be used as dev / test environment and would benefit from being at the same level as production (which ...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration