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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.

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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PAW: Checkbox data format

Checkboxes are very useful for mappings and for custom approvals. Now the users need to select values in picklist in custom approvals (like "approved" or "declined"), or to enter "0" and "1" in mappings. It would be much more comfortable for them ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Require EGO RestAPI to close host via automation

As we discussed earlier on our call, we are searching for a method to provide some automation for our Spectrum environments. Ideally, this type of action would be supported by an API level interface, but the available commands for host management ...
21 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 2 Submitted

Optim support cockroach databases

Optim support cockroach databases
21 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

names for JOB's steps

Would it be possible to give names to the different steps of a job? it would be easier to select the single one to be modified when there are many steps within the same jon
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Larger program limits must be supported by the Refactoring Assistant component.

We are unable to proceed with the POC because of this RA size restriction. This enhancement would benefit the client and CE. The Refactoring assistant is encountering an error when loading a program with ~1200 paragraphs. The error: IAYSD0023E A p...
21 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

for loadSched memory if the submitted job has memory reservation the job should not be run if the nodes mem used + job memory reservation > loadSched memory limit

because users want to keep a certain amount of memory free. And currently the limit can be bypassed.
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
10 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted