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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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Preserve Ad hoc (unsaved) filters while the Grid view is still open

Users report frustration that in the TFUI, on a main FLV Grid, when they create an adhoc filter and apply it without specifying a name for the filter, it applies to the grid (showing "Unsaved filter" being applied). If user clicks on one of the gr...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Ability to filter a view based on text values

Currently, an option exists to filter a view based on top/ bottom numeric values ​​in rows / columns. No options are available if we need to filter the data in a view based on a string value (the only option is to write a specific mdx statemen...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Support price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for spot fleet

Pleas add the feature that HostFactory supports price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy for spot fleet https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/introducing-price-capacity-optimized-allocation-strategy-for-ec2-spot-instances/
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

automatically cancel long running prepare Statements

Long running quieries can be cancelled automatically by setting parameter MAXACTIVITYTOTALRUNTIME Could a simmilar parameter be introduced for cancelling long running Prepare Statements? As of now over parameter SQL_STATEMENT_PREPARE_TIME_WARNING_...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Disable refresh every time you change tabs

Every time we change tabs, the application reloads the page. This makes work more time consuming because it takes time to reload. We want the refresh to be disabled, the user decides whether to reload the page.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Add Elastic Search as a source and sink repository for CP4D

Customers all over the world use Elastic Search as a repository of data. In this case we have an opportunity for a US Government customer that has a significant amount of data in Elastic Search and the opportunity hinges on the ability for all CP4...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Datastage Snowflake connector add Key Pair Authentication

Requesting enhancement to use key pair authentication with the datastage snowflake connector rather than using the typical username/password authentication. https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/jdbc-configure.html#using-key-pair-authentic...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Allow indexes to be made invisible to queries

When removing unused indexes the first step we want is to be able to make index invisible to queries similar to the Oracle feature. As the index is still being maintained the rollback to make the index visible to queries is quick.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Request to Have a Pause Option for MDI/MDE Job from UI & API Level

The DBA of XYZ Database will be giving a timely schedule (~Cool Period to Database) to run MDI & MDE Job due to Huge/Multiple Users Connections to DB at peak Hours. Let's say if I scheduled a Job to run on a particular interval of time, if the...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

service classes not passed on through multi-cluster

We have a need to pass on the service classes of jobs that are attached to them from the sending cluster to the receiving cluster so we can ensure the guaranteed resource pools are using the SLA. If a sending cluster has jobs with sla's attached (...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered