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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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Hover over job details to display source of job step

With the job properties now in the new UI, the ability to hover over job steps to uncover the folder structure behind the object is gone. There is now no way to determine where the job step has come from, especially in systems with multiple copies...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Needs a clean-up solution when open thread is active and there is an IMS outage

Please refer to the PMR:01622,69G,760.-----------------------------My customer does not want to restart the apply server when recovering the IMS failure.This is because the replication stop time expands and the data reflection on the target is del...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Provide user the ability to suppress generation of DISCARDDN, PUNCHDDN, UNLDDN for reorg TS

These are not needed in most reorgs, tool should allow the user to determine if these should be generated.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Skill Description to Skill Tile

In the Watson Assistant UI, currently you can only see the Description of a skill when you are in the skill (shows in upper left corner) and when you Rename the skill (it does not show under 'View API Details). It would be helpful to show the Desc...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

DSU Needs a Home

Currently, in v4.0.5.1, , it is provided as "extras" in the artifacts pod with no methodology to apply/deploy via OpenShift.
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Translation method D for intercompany currency differences

Issue: For our Group consolidation we are translating P/L figures using translation method D (Average Period rates). But on intercompany transactions Cognos Controller calculates and post currency differences based on translation method M (Average...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Possibility to search where within stages

I would like to be able to search where different assets/params/connections etc are used within stages in DS
10 months ago in DataStage 0

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage

MettleCI compliance testing integration with Next-Gen DataStage
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

[Watson Pipeline] Link the script (any runtime) result to stage parameter directly

We would to have the possibility to execute runtime on the trigger job stage directly instead of creating a new node.
10 months ago in DataStage 0

Enable maintenance mode with appropriate & consistent messages for users across UI

In PA, there needs to be a feature which stops users from accessing the platform. This can be useful during a security change, data validation, metadata update, save data, bulk upload and many other maintenance related jobs. A maintenance mode is ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration