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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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Provide a method to allow LSF simulations to be captured by a customers RTM

Provided a customer set's up a RTM hostname, and credentials, when a simulation is started, register the simulation clusters data collector and the cluster itself with that RTM and then enable collection for the duration of the simulation. Name th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 2 Not under consideration

Application rotation or maintenance of created files in /tmp (ex. snappy)

The product leaves temporary files into /tmp directory that are not properly taked care of. That means that external processes must be carried out in order to not flood that directory. Could you please implement into the product any mean of addres...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Bypass Package BIND/REBIND Locks for EXPLAIN(ONLY)

We have an analysis tool that we use to analyze potential changes in access paths. For timeliness of analysis our need is to use this tool during the business day. The tool uses EXPLAIN(ONLY) as a BIND parameter. Based on system workload, we exper...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PAX TI Process Status

When running TI process from the task pane in PAX no indication is given whether the process finished executing or not. There should be a message box similar to that of action button.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Infosphere CDC to support the remote journal in the same iSeries Lpar

This is Shane from HSBC. We selected IBM Infosphere CDC for real-time data replication from iSerise to Oracle in Linux. Background/Pain-points: Our system in iSeries uses single journal for all database, which associated more than 40K files. Du...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

When copying or moving a report, modify the warning message "an item with this name already exists"

It should display the report name in the user's language set, or even better both the name in default language and also the displayed language so the user can easily locate the object in question.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

message to indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted

To indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted, either through DSNI031I or via a new message.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aging of connected accounts to Access Server

When a client forgets to sign out of Access Server and shuts down their session, Access Server keeps them logged in. The only way to clear the session is to restart Access Server. This is difficult in a multi-user environment (as product is design...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Encryption utility for RSP files

Goal: create RSP (response) file to install Db2 LUW on multiple systems, but allow for customization of the password for the instance owner without having to go through the GUI installer for each, and avoid displaying the password in plain text in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration