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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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New Db2 ZPARM for specifying SMS storage & management classes for FlashCopy image copies

When doing FlashCopy image copies the Db2 utilities create image copies by ADRDSSU and it passes the same SMS storage & management classes as the Db2 spaces.This is not always wanted as the performance and management requirements are in most c...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Queries with DGTTs

When a query in a program uses a DGTT, there is no access path written to the PLAN_TABLE at bind time, and there is no way to see the potential access paths. There needs to be a way to see those access paths in Administration Foundation. Currently...
25 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
25 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Utilizing WCA for mainframes outside of Z and servers like IBM Power/Also utilizing it for Microfocus COBOL

Currently, client has an insurance claims application hosted on IBM Power systems written in microfocus COBOL and wanting to use WCA to modernize to Java.

EnableSandboxDimension parameter causing processes to fail

We identified a problem when we enabled the EnableSandboxDimension parameter in the tm1s.cfg file. When we adjusted this parameter to true, we noticed that several of our processes began to fail, and upon further investigation, we discovered that ...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Prevent CPD Project Users from writing and changing file permissions from Jupyter Notebook

Today, any user in a project that has permissions above the read-only permission (editor, admin) has the ability to write new files from a notebook, or change permissions for a file using chmod. This is a potential security vulnerability, and not ...
26 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Lean image for Python 3.9 for Watson Machine Learning and Watson Studio

Our clients deploying models in Watson Machine Learning or running batch scoring via the Watson Studio job framework require custom images to bring their own packages. The lean images will only contain the minimum list of packages needed for WML o...
26 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review