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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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Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timeout) – Add STCK for Held Locks

At IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timestamp) please add a STCK for the held lock (blocker) when the lock was granted. In case of a lockout with this STCK the sequence of the locks, and so the sequence of the blocker-SQLs, can be reconstructed ‘post mor...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill-through from hierarchy

We still have PowerCubes and would like to reuse them with dashboards. We have confirmed with support that it's not possible to drill through from a sub-level in a hierarchy in a dashboard. Previously, when we were using Analysis Studio, we set up...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Request Optim to support Java 11 as Java 8 is no longer supported.

Currently Optim only allows for Java 8 which is no longer allowed to be used at the client site.
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

PAW - Action Button - Add ability to run a process before displaying the parameters panel

It would be great if we could setup for the action buttons, in addition to the main TI process, a secondary TI process with its parameters. This secondary process would be executed just before displaying the main process's parameter window. This...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration