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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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CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
about 1 month ago in Db2 2 Submitted

"System Migration-->Import configuration" available as a method from the REST API level

"System Migration-->Import configuration" available as a method from the REST API level Why?1.it will fit into the idea of ​​a fully automated "Change Management" process with all the checks and acceptances required in this process 2.we would a...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted
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Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
5 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Development or test stories for an Agile Development Team for the Explain or RA

Customer is looking for a capability that will draft initial development or test stories for an Agile Development Team. It would be great if functionality was provided either out of Refactor Assistant or even Explain to build these user stories fo...

REST API for resetting vendor user password

As part of our Customer Business we do managed 1000+ Vendors in PIM, where 2000+ users are mapped under that, and expiry Policy of the Vendor User is 3 months. So, each time user password is expired or if users are forgetting the Password there is...
6 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Database overview in numbers

I would like an overview of the database in figures. There was already something like this in Architect. In PAW I can't see how many cells a cube has and how many of them are filled. Or how many elements there are in a dimension. These numbers giv...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review