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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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Request for a new zParm parameter, named for example IXCOPY to be set to YES or NO in order to choose how DB2 creates IX

This RFE requests a new zParm parameter, named for example IXCOPY to be set to YES or NO in order to choose the default for indexes creation:- if IXCOPY = NO (default) DB2 will continue to work as now, that means that DB2 will create all indexes C...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW: “forecast period end” selector should start from selected “Forecast period start”

In PAW, Forecast Set up window, after a user selects a “Forecast period start”, “Forecast period end” should start from the start period selected (see screenshot) When there are many history periods, it is very time consuming to find the current t...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Set chores in Local Time

Ability required to setup chores in Local Time using Planning Analytics Workspace. As this functionality exists in Architect, it would be helpful if this was replicated in PAW.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage Amazon S3 Connector Enhancement

Need enhancement for the S3 Connector to support using SAML authentication to get temporary AWS access key and security token.
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Attatch voice message to mobile app reports

Extending on the current capability to annotate/comment an active report from the mobile app, the ability to voice record a comment and attached it to a specific report would greatly improve the use of reports and the application
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Update Facets property for entity model schould work correctly

When you add Tables from an existing Database to an entity model all seems ok. If you activate 'Update Facets property' to be able to see automatically changes of field lengths ( normally existing fields are not changed automatically) the prolem i...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Splitting Software Update package upload and pre-check steps

When doing Software Upgrade, ie. when pressing the "transfer" button in Datastudio, idaa server runs a list of 5 steps. The first step is the transfer of upgrade package of 20+GB. This could take long if the package does not locate on USS (some cu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration