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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.

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


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Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Google BigQuery for Mac

BigQuery and Mac users are increasing in entertainment industry or startup company. Supporting Google BigQuery and the SQL Push Back for Mac is needed to sell SPSS Modeler to clients.
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Provide functionality to pause a cluster to suspend runtime charges when the cluster is not in use

Sometimes, I only need to use a cluster for a one-off task that may run for a few days or more. I would like to be able to pause these clusters when I am not using them to suspend charges. The clusters usually have some configuration that I do man...
almost 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Hiding 'Send report to mobile device' option under Report delivery method in Cognos 11 Cloud

Hi Team, On Cognos 11 cloud portal for any report when we choose Report 'Run as' > 'Run in background' > 'Advanced' > 'Delivery', we can see 'Send report to mobile device' option. we want to hide this option for group of users (based o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Moving only a single partition with AMT procedure for online reorg

Since the performance of inplace reorg per partition is too slow, customer want to use AMT procedure for online reorganizaiton. However AMT can specify table level only, not partition level.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IDAA should identify and format the rest of a volume after using TDMF to migrate from a smaller capacity dasd device to a larger capacity device

We recently migrated via TDMF from mod 54 to EAV devices (4 times larger) TDMF will copy the data to a space the size of the mod 54 (1/4 of the EAV). IDAA will only recognize and use the that space wasting 3/4 of the device. We would like IDAA to ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration