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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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Multi-engine management on watsonx.data SaaS

For resiliency and tenancy purposes, there is a need to deploy multiple engines (and types) to a single watsonx.data instance. This is something that can be configured and deployed on CP4D, however the SaaS version of watsonx.data doesn't seem to ...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Functionality already exists

Have the ability of changing resource definition credentials programmatically instead of through the Deployment Manager Client

This would allow admins to change the spss resource definition passwords using automation, rotating them more frequently and making the accounts used in the application more secure.
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

IA GUI does not display decimal trailing 0s

IA GUI does not display decimal .00; if decimal .50, it displays only .5, but if decimal .15, it normally displays. when they check in the Database, they have a decimal .00, and then check on the thin client it has a decimal .0000000000 Can we mod...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
5 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Show only Move button, not delete button on grid view

I have a business requirement where I need to give access to move the file (under attachments->file object) from one folder to another. In grid view, I want to show only this option: Move. But it is currently showing Delete and Move both option...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Connection Manager should have an option to initiate failover if a shared memory dump is started.

In high transaction environments shared memory dumps could have enough impact they cannot be enabled.The connection manger should be able to detect that an instance is dumped shared memory and be able to initiate failover.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for Workflow Action Comment

Currently, change history does not include previous comments made in the "Action Comment" field (workflow comment popup). The popup cannot be used to serve as rejection or approval if the comment (which might provide conditional approval) is not t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Not under consideration

UDC functionality in PAx. Using a subset reference in a DBRW function.

The feature is not new per say, because it works in Perspectives. The request is for the function to use a subset reference in a DBRW function (the UDC functionality). Then a user can create a workbook with unique references and analyses data in a...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration