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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.

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Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

Allow TI function Synchronized() to return immediately in case of conflict

In our application for some (complex) operations, the user asking for it has to be sure that another user is not performing the same operation on the same perimeter. For example when user validates his forecast for BUDGET 2025 for Business Unit ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
536 VOTE

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

Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g. IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455) , it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do. For ...
6 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Support for RDS for Db2 in Cognos Analytics

We are currently using Cognos Analytics in our on-premises system, with Db2 as the DBMS. As we are considering migrating our servers to the cloud, we would like RDS for Db2 to be supported in Cognos Analytics. (As a result of an inquiry to support...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
26 days ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Under review

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...