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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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Disable "i" interactive animation in PA for Excel Options

One of our customers have experienced errors while hovering over these "i" icons and has negatively impacted user experience. From what I understand, these animations are hosted on IBM Knowledge Center and are relatively heavy which requires so...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

zOS DLA not discovering IDAA

Would like to have the zOS DLA discover our IDAA boxes.
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow an EDITPROC routine to be added to a table using ALTER

Update ALTER to allow an EDITPROC to be added to a table. Remember if an EDITPROC was added to a table or not in the catalog. If an EDITPROC was *not* alter added to a table (either none was specified, or the EDITPROC was specified at CREATE TABLE...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SQLHOSTS groups connect to non-primary

Include at SQLHOSTS options specific for groups to allow connection for non-pimary serversSomething like : conn_sec = 1 Then , the client will be able to connect at any server of the group, no matter if it is Primary / HDR / RSS / SDS. ... Today i...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Splitting Software Update package upload and pre-check steps

When doing Software Upgrade, ie. when pressing the "transfer" button in Datastudio, idaa server runs a list of 5 steps. The first step is the transfer of upgrade package of 20+GB. This could take long if the package does not locate on USS (some cu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to specify cores or exclusive host for Benchmark job

Currently all benchmark jobs submitted via RTM use 1 core. Also, one cannot specify node to be exclusively used via bsub -x. This allows other jobs to land on same node and thus tainting benchmark numbers
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release