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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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Monitor IDAA for z/OS physical filesystem in size in real time

There are different UIs such as Data Studio, DSM and and Admin UI and they provide different metrics for storage usage in IDAA on Z. Such as; - Table size in data studio determined at the table level, - Used Space in data studio which comes from U...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable UUID as a column type, and generation of UUIDs

As we are moving towards more microservices on Z, and more interaction with cloud services, where UUIDs are much more used, we see a growing need for saving and generating UUIDs on Z. We therefore propose that UUID be made a column type in DB2. Th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 10 Not under consideration

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Define and display tags hierarchically

Problem statement/pain point: In now Tags can be defined only non-hierarchy style.In our usecase, administrator design tags system in the enterprise such as in below.This tags system have hierarchical contents. AI_type-Question and answer, AI_ty...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to view the websheet details in PAW

Once a websheet is added in PAW book, there is currently no way of knowing which websheet had been added later. This leads to confusion when you've multiple versions of the same report published in Applications folder.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Add Ability to Generate BIND Statements for Inadvertently Freed Packages

We are looking for the Log Analysis Tool to have the ability to find packages that have been dropped (which it can do already) and use this information to generate BIND statements to more or less undo the freeing of said packages. This could be se...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Introduction of an overall view of all the jobs running

As an CP4D administrator I need the ability to see the jobs that are running (projects, spaces, spark (rest api jobs) etc.) where the actual resources are displayed. In this job overview I want the possibility to get logs, stop or start the jobs e...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration