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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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Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

Business rules on notifications

Need the capability to be able to apply business rules on notifications using different time zones, days of a week and dates. Examples - User action triggered notifications should be sent between Monday to Friday 9AM-5PM EST. User action triggered...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 5 Future consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Service

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in the Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Services a message pops up "Static Copy required". This Message confuses Employees working with the system. The user enters the WebPage and Logs In. When usi...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Features - Inactivity timeout for Planning Analytics as a Service - AWS

A customer using Planning Analytics as a Service on AWS wants to extend the inactivity timeout to 90 minutes. However, there is no option to do this in the Administration/Features section of PAW AWS version 2.0.99, unlike what is available in Plan...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Minor edits should not trigger a workflow

Any workflow adds work. Not all modifications are of equal importance, some the user should be able to do alone. It would be good to be able to define attributes which can be considered of minor importance and those would be just auto-published. O...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration