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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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Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Make name of object the default when exporting

Currently when exporting a DataStage object from Designer (with rightclick->Export), the tool will suggest the last used filename as "Export to file:" filename. In most cases (when exporting a single object) I want to name the DSX like the obje...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DISPLAY UTILITY Enhancement

Add more granularity to the DISPLAY UTILITY command by added a STATUS filter. We may have a hundred utilities running at once, I would like to be able to pull up just the STOPPED ones.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

greater/less than and between option for attributes filtering

In PAx and PA Workspace you can filter subsets based on attributes =, <>, contains, start/end with a selected value. But you can't select members by attributes with value greater/than a value or between two values. It can be done by mdx only...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to statistics like memory, CPU, disk space - presentation in a dashboard

Hello IBM'ers, As explained in support ticket TS010721444. IBM PAoC customers of ours would like to be able to access certain statistics: memory, CPU, the information from the fileshare, etc. Meaning, how much space was used, what is total space, ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Simplify setting up CP4D monitoring and alerting #cpfield

Setting up CP4D alerting (e.g. forwarding alerts to slack/email) should be as simple as when setting up alerting for OCP with Prometheus. Everything should be able to be done in the web console. This would enable people who are not experienced w...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Hide PAW Qickstart

Most of our Users are familiar with the PAW Structure. For that we want them to use only PAW Applications. To ensure that it would be helpful if PAW remembers that a user has hidden the Quickstart on the PAW Startpage
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Application Section Groups

At the moment the user sees long list in the Plan Sidebar if the section consists of many assets. For a big PAW Application it would be helpful if it would be possible to create more groups, levels, folders under a section in the application, so t...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration