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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Audit Migrations

Need the ability within the Audit database/package to see details of a migration in a report for compliance purposes.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reports Report

There is no way to pull out a report with all reports entered in Controller for both Company and Group Companies.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Error Descriptions

Improve Error Descriptions Current error message are very generic and it is hard to understand what exactly the failure is looking at the logs Improve on the error reporting for users to understand the error without enabling traces to understand t...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Better Debug logging

When debug logging is turned on to measure "logins" the logs fill up with logins, not just the initial user login, but 100's and 100's of "system chatter" logins as PA confirms internally...something about login. Intial user login is important to ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Running different types of workloads on an IDAA, yet not have one type of workload dominate

For example: We have MAXIMUM_NUMBER_CONCURRENT_RUNNING_SQL_TRANSACTIONS set to 10. We have an application that executes long running queries (minutes in length). We have another running queries that take a second or less. Without the ability to li...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enabling the Batch processing based on Compute Express Link CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0 Fabrics

CXL 3.0 is built upon the IBM OpenCAPI, but CXL3 and CXL 4 have more speeds and will achieve the following: 1- Enabling the Interconnection between IBM LinuxONE and Exa scale AI Data Centers based on Nvidia DGX H100 based on Nvidia H100 GPUs and I...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

Adding heterogeneous processing CPUs, GPUs and FPGA Accelerator for Spectrum LSF

In the near future we will need more advanced distributed heterogeneous processing , We think it is better to take into consideration the Intel oneAPI and other tools like oneDNN, oneDAL ,...etc. It may need joining openPOWER foundation and IBM wi...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration