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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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Implementation SPSS Modeler's new visualization feature "View Data" as a node.

SPSS Modeler stores the various operations in a stream, making it very easy to run the same operation over and over, or to run the same operation on different data. Because View Data is not implemented as a node, the configuration is not stored in...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release

Add Master Detail Relationship for Chart Visualizations in Cognos 11.1

Master detail relationships option found under DATA for Cognos analytics Chart visualisation is not available in Cognos 11.1 (especially 11.1 R5 version). The feature was available in Cognos 10. The feature is needed in Cognos 11.1, such that we c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Planned for future release

PL/I demo assets

PL/I demo assets required to show case MVP and use cases to clients. Canadian Tire corp only has PL/I code and we require PL/I development support as well as PL/I samples to be loaded in Techzone to ramp up Understand phase with clients and then p...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Support for explain package copy current

This way one can get back the sql-statement access paths of the current package version in the case the corresponding rows can't be found in the plan table any more. For instance EXPLAIN PACKAGE COLLECTION 'PRODCOL' PACKAGE 'MOD01AA' COPY 'CURRENT'
29 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release
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automatically activate a database when DB2 LUW is started

See PMR 14855,227,000. We would like some way to automatically activate a specific database when a DB2 instance is started without the use of external scripts or DB2 APIs.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 6 Planned for future release

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Dremio Official Support Need

There is a connector for dremio in the product. We can connect and run metadata enrichment, but we cannot perform other actions such as data quality. When we researched, we learned that this is not officially supported. With this being officially ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release