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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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Add compatibility check between a PDB artifacts and the respective TKANMOD lib to avoid LOAD step failures

During a recent upgrade of Omegamon, the holddoc was reviewed, and no references to the PDB were found. Due to this fact, the team performing the upgrade did not include the team that specifically supports this database and the loading of these ta...
3 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Adding snowflake as a database supported for analysis output tables

As part of the design of the solution for Data Quality using IBM Knowledge Catalog further database support for output tables are good to have. As per the documentation, Supported data sources for curation and data quality - IBM Documentation, add...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Show status "active/pending" in Management Console and not just '"active" when DMFS510P metadata table "UPDSTS=2" in CDC DB2 for i

if the status of a table in the back end system (CDC Db2 for i) is 'active/pending' ( metadata table DMFS510P PF when "UPDSTS=2" - "active/pending") for any reason, that this status is visible in the CDC Management Console.
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Db2/Z SQL timeout on behalf of application

Purpose : Submit DB2Z ‘AHA’ request for Angela Yang – Scotiabank Canada Ltd. Background: Customer Situation is that an application (cobol) invokes a IMS Fast Path transaction, which subsequently invokes a DB2Z/OS SQL request. This DB2Z SQL request...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
17 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration