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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.

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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Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improvements to the Transformer Component in CP4D:

- The Variable Stages: only one stage is visible at a time, and it is not possible to view the entry fields with its properties.- The output derivation: if the link is long, it is hard to know what fileds are to be derived, and whihc transfromatio...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

MER Message List - visible Values for Reference, Amount and Date for DNIMX messages

in DNIMX messages there is no visible values for Reference and Amount , it is difficult for users to find their message in message view
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

Allow inplace reorgs cleanup overflows on partitioned tables with global indexes

We are seeing more OLTP customers moving from Db2 z/OS who require the ability to cleanup overflows through reorg on their partitioned tables which have been defined with global indexes.
4 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Submitted

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
10 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

PAW Pass Context - option to not pass Set

When you use the PAW button for navigation and select to Pass Context, it not only passes the Selector dimension element but also the set. Is there anyway to only pass the element and not the set? We have PAW pages where the sets are different, bu...
30 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration