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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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High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 2 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow specification of VolumeType when provisioning a new EMR cluster through Transformer

When the Cluster Manager Type is set to EMR and Define Cluster Start Option is set to Provision New Cluster, there should be an option to set the VolumeType for EBS storage. Since this is possible when actually creating an EMR cluster and attachin...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Show IDAA data in TEP

In E3270 mode it's possible to view (detailed) IDAA theads. In TEP there's nothing like that. However, there is some IDAA data available, so we created an own view, but it would be nice to have this default delivered as it is in E3270.
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Planned for future release

IBM Data Management Console scheduled reports in PDF format

Currently the "Create scheduled report" only allows a URL of the report to be sent out in an email. This is to request a PDF attachment option made available so that users can access it directly in their emails instead of logging on to DMC to view...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow use of query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration