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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.

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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Trace calculation option not available in workbench for }CellSecurity Control objects

Developers needs to trace rule calculated cells for }CellSecurity Control object to check which rule is being applied but option is not coming after right click on rule calculated cell. This will help in debugging. We can do it from Book but devel...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow all job status querying from Cloud Pak for Data API

Neither "Watson Data API" or "IBM Cloud Pak for Data Platform API" have functions for platform administrator to get all job status information, even from projects or deployment spaces where they are not members. Currently if platform admin has all...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Web UI job status monitoring to have more granular time frame filter

It would be nice to have custom option for the time range of the job monitoring filter.Both for the Deployment space jobs and Project jobs. The current 6 different selections are rather limiting.Best would be filter would allow actual Start and En...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Update REXX DSNTWFG to allow user to specify tablespace name prefixes

Allow users of DSNTWFG to specify new parameters TEMP4K_PREFIX, TEMP32K_PREFIX, SORT4K_PREFIX and SORT32K_PREFIX three character prefix for tablespace names.
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow Run SQL to handle host variables as Data Studio does

When executing a SQL query under DSM, there is no provision for host variables and an error results when you try to execute a query. A simple example such as: SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, HIREDATE, JOB, SEX, BIRTHDATE FROM SPEMP ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DBSW/DBRW formulae with Hierarchy Awareness Parameters

So that all existing Active Form reports can be reused easily and maintained. And they can coexist with Planning Analytics environment nicely.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration