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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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Provide a method to forcibly kick users from an instance

If the primary instance or any instance a user is logged into needs to be restarted or shutdown for either maintenance or technical issues this could help provide notification to the logged in users.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Db2 V12 Change MODIFY RECOVERY To Delete Non Expired Data Sets

In Db2 V12 MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, DELETEDS specifies that cataloged image copy data sets are to be deleted when the corresponding SYSCOPY records are deleted. When we run MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, non-expired disk data sets are ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through window should have maximize button

When users drill through the window is small. When users want to drill through and see more data, they have to first move the screen from the center to the left and then expand the bottom. They need to do this for each time they drill through. Thi...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Administration

Add the ability to customize(or at least expand) the fields viewed in Cognos Administration for Scheduled reports, Past Activities, Current Activities
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support limit (first xx) on delete statements

Currently limiting the number of rows to be deleted like "delete first 500 from " is not supported.Only supported in simple selects.To define which 500 records are deleted, this might be an alternate solution:delete from where ID in (select first ...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow the confidence threshold criteria for disambiguation to be configurable

Currently WA (premium) uses a calculation of confidence within 55% of top intent for disambiguation candidates. This is too sensitive for some training sets (the range increases with higher confidence levels, triggering disambiguation more often t...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

STOP DATABASE(HHHHH) SPACE(*) RETRY(N)

We would like to have an option to set how much times STOP DB command will retry in order to avoid continues locks on DSNDB06 .SYSTSTSS while trying to STOP DB and update its RTS. Operation in TSO, z/OS, and batch: When the STOP DATABASE command i...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration