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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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Hide delivery options by role customization

There are 4 delivery options for reports or report views: Send report by email, Print report, Send report to mobile device and Save report. By now they can't be hidden by role customization. We do not use all of them and don't want to use our bank...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSNTIAUL should support input LRECL size of > 80 bytes and not ignore input beyond the first 72 bytes

It is sometimes easy to put SQL all on one record as long as the LRECL of that record is very large. It becomes difficult to parse that SQL so it is divided into 72 byte records. Currently, the IBM utilities have input files that can have a LRECL ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Extract or export kpi/sai dashboard information from Safer Payments

Using the Dashboard we can see and track some information related to MCI latency (average, maximum, violation ...), transactions message rate, FLI buffer usage ... but existing display makes things complicated to track them on monthly basis and ge...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

.Net Framework 4.8 Support

.Net Framework 4.8 is often pre-installed on modern PC servers, but Information Server 11.7.1 does not support .Net Framework 4.8. .Net Framework 4.8 should be supported as soon as possible.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Configure a user-defined value for disabling all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing after a number of abends

When a certain number of abends occurs, while processing IFI requests, processing of all IFI request and MONITOR trace is disabled, requiring an action from Db2 operator/system administrator to be resumed. Today this number of abends, that disable...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Enable Instana monitoring for Watson Assistant

Instana not possible to use for Watson Assistant. WA pods are evicted. The root cause of the issues was that the Instana product injects a jar file into a temporary directory, called EmptyDir, which has a preset limit of 1Mi. The Instana jar is ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000'. However, using this value can lead to various problems which are recognized by DB2 development already as during introduction of temporal table...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Thread filter in the server log

When watching the live log it is often necessary to focus on a single thread. Currently the search function helps with finding the lines related to a thread but a better solution would be to have a filter next to the already existing filter for Le...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bar charts conditional formatting in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

Despite the fact that over time more formatting options for visualizations in PA Workspace have become available, there is still no option to set conditional formatting for bar charts in a way that allows the color to depend on the value. Our user...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted