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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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End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Children Section in Admin View should include Copy Associated action.

The new Admin View in 8.3 allows us to add the Dynamic Children section, which shows all the child relationships for the object (similar to the "Associations" listings on the left side pane of the old standard UI). This is great as it allows us to...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Allow genBSON to process a MULTISET datatype

Our problem is to get complex data from the server in the fastest way. Usually, getting data from a parent -> child relation ships, should be done programatically iterating thru multiple resultsets and getting data one by one. Network overhead ...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Updating free text search instruction

We are using Free Text Search which is great for the customers, however is it possible to update the instructions note provided against the Free Text Search? Every customer is unique and they need not necessarily be a super user to understand the ...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration