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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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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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Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Be able to 'Save As' processes to other PA services

For small scripts and testing we often test something out in UAT/DEV. It would be nice not to have to go through a whole migration process to save the process to production
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improving Insert Performance for LOBs

As mentioned in Case TS004024647 there are some situations where inserts in lob structures do not provide the expected performance. Instead they cause massive CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility for the spacemap search. The problem is excessi...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide logging/metrics for service level usage of watsonx.ai SaaS

Question from a partner about service level usage logging for watsonx.ai SaaS. Is there a good option to see detailed usage? e.g. number of API endpoint requests over time, histogram of input tokens per request, or grouped by token size, to analyz...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add TAQ comparison to Compressed Name Controls

Due to our inability to control the completeness of the names provided by external financial institutions, it is likely that name tampering—whether intentional or unintentional—by these institutions may prevent us from accurately assessing the lis...
about 2 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted

Document Data flow and transformations when using synch\sort.

During a recent Discovery workshop for Watsonx code assistant for Z, customer is looking to modernize one of their monolith applications Power One, requested the following idea be logged as an RFE (request for enhancement) as this will benefit the...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review