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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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Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

remove the requirement of setting DB2INSTANCE before entering/exiting maintenance mode as root

Starting from v11.1.3.3, the user wants to enter / exist maintenance mode as root user, s/he has to export DB2INSTANCE before the db2cluster command: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t00...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Limit maximum number of writer tasks that can be assigned per subscription

We had an incident where one subscription had monopolized most of the writer tasks which caused replication latency for the RMs of all the other subscriptions in that source/target server pair. Therefore, there should be a parm to set a limit for ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 1 Future consideration

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio this is the same concept Power BI has and its in top position we already had it in report studio i dont know wh...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Refining Error Messages for Better Service Association in Watsonx.ai

When associating services to a project, users are often confused because services like Watson Studio, which cannot be associated, are also displayed. Moreover, when trying to associate such non-associable services, an error message is displayed sa...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Have Audit Log show when Report is cancled due to the Report Server Execution time limit.

The system has the following configuration setting on the Report Server service: Maximum execution Time for the report service (seconds) = 3600 When reports hit this time limit, the Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT) shows:RSV-SRV-0063 An error occ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Specify Namespace without Gateway

As Cognos Analytics does not require the use of a Gateway it is being requested that the ability to specify the namespace to be used is provided. This functionality exists when using a gateway and specifying the Gateway namespace.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration