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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Delegation of workflow tasks

We need to have functionality to delegate workflow tasks to other users and/or invite other users to contribute to specific workflow tasks (e.g. for self-assessment, issue management and other workflow activities)
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Multi-members selection in a context selector and show only the total in synchronized charts

In PAW, there is the possibility to synchronize charts with context dimension selectors. Selecting one member will show the data related to this member.Our customer needs to be able to select multiple members and show dynamically the total of the ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to Schedule Calculations

We would like the ability to schedule calculations. When they are set to auto-start it looks like calculations only run on an implicit save or new record. We're finding relatively dormant records are not having auto-started calcs run on them so we...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Switch integrated Watson Assistant by user locale

Hi team, We are investigating to provide chatbot in multi language. According to the following manual, Watson Assistant recommends users to switch assistant by language. https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/assistant?topic=assistant-assistant-language Howev...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase messaging detail after STOP Db2 to provide shutdown status information.

As Db2 continues to allow more and more capacity in a single subsystem - larger bufferpools, more open datasets, etc - the time to shut down Db2 continues to increase. Operational staff has complained repeatedly that they cannot tell whether Db2 i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration