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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Manta Alation Export - SAML Authentication Support

Current version of Manta does not support SAML authentication for Alation export connection. Currently, we are using a work around in place by using a local account for Alation export authentication. According to our company security policy, this ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Plan Announcements generates an email alert per task

When an Announcement is posted in a PAW Plan, it triggers an email alert to each user assigned to each task, instead of one email to each user part of the plan. For example - In the one Plan we have, there are 30 tasks. The Capacity Planner securi...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Data Collector thread consuming CPU after closing preview

Faulty code, such as an infinite loop in a Groovy Evaluator stage, will not destroy threads after closing a pipeline preview. The lingering threads will consume CPU resources until the engine is restarted. The request for this Idea is to implement...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Advanced Selector Widget Synchronization Across Sheets

Issue: Advanced Selector Widgets for the same dimensions on the same book, but on different sheets that are synchronized to the book, are not showing selections made on other sheets. Despite the charts updating to reflect selections made on other ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Expire API Tokens at a set number of days

The Lockheed Martin security team would like to see a feature to set an API token expiration. Ideally users will be required to put an expiration date when generating a token. Another option we would like to have is the ability to generate a repor...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Ability to import AD or CAM users in PAW

We have a couple of customer PA local environments where we in Architect add new Users or Groups from Active Directory or Cognos CAM through Security -> Client Groups -> Add New Client or Add New Group. This functionality is currently not av...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration