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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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Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

A way to see who is logged in to PAW

If you have planned a PAW downtime for maintenance and you want to check if there are still users logged in, you have no way to do so. You can check the threads of a database, but this is not feasible when you have multiple databases. Regarding "c...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

I use CDC Replication to send the data from IBM ISeries into Snowflake but after upgrading the JDBC Driver to 3.15.0 I started getting an error in the Table Mapping. The error is "Unknown datatype: TIMESTAMPZ". It is due to a couple of metadata co...
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Please ensure that no filters are applied when selecting ICOS during project creation.

When creating a project in watsonx.ai SaaS, there is a section where we can select Storage (ICOS). (Screenshot_Create a project.png) It seems that the filter applied on the previous Associate Service screen is also being applied to this selection ...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add custom message to file upload prompt

In Planning Analytics Workspace when a action button is added to a book, a user may choose to run a process and allow a file upload. It would be really helpful if we could customise the message that is displayed to the user when the user is prompt...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration