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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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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

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

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...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Show IDAA data in TEP

In E3270 mode it's possible to view (detailed) IDAA theads. In TEP there's nothing like that. However, there is some IDAA data available, so we created an own view, but it would be nice to have this default delivered as it is in E3270.
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Top 20 high number of connections

Under PERFORMANCE INSIGHT - It would be helpful to have the Top 20 high NUMBER OF CONNECTIONS per location (IP), UserId and Application as we have for DISTRIBUTED THREADS. Furthermore, in DCC (Distributed Connections) it would help a lot to be abl...
about 2 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Under review