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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Cloud environment Maintenance - Optional Waves

In the Monthly Cloud Environment maintenance that occurs on the 3rd Saturday of each month, have an option to choose a different time frame. ie. from 1AM to 9AM UTC or from 2PM to 10PM
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bring back Host Rank to enable filtering out unreliable sources

Host Rank allowed for filtering out sources with a low score. Without it, offensive, inappropriate, and fake sources creep into the News query results. The current mechanism of submitting individual source complaints is ineffective.
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Leverage capabilities of Machine Learning to CDC to enhance the product and make it smart

There are different features in CDC that are usually configured manually based on customer's environment. For example: Refresh (Standard, Differential, External etc), Fast Apply. There are also other environment related configurations like size of...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow RESTSERVICEDEFAULT on BIND SERVICE

When using BIND SERVICE to implement new Db2 REST services it would simplify integration with existing change management systems to allow the specification of the default version on the BIND SERVICE. This may be accomplished by using REBIND PACKAG...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Enable InfoSphere CDC for Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

We want to run the Microsoft SQL Server agent in a container on the mainframe. Which requires the agent to be ported to Linux. When running the agent on the mainframe it will be much easier to manage high availability of the whole CDC solution.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

GUI for MX Chaneels

Please Provide GUI for Open/Close/Monitor MX Channels for easy of Access.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Legend title sizing based on space in visualisation

The Legend on visualisations in Planning Analytics Workspace is limited to a certain number of characters and is not dependent on the amount of space available in the visualisation. This means that some element names are cut off in the legend of t...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Some of the characters that can be used in SPSS Modeler field names cannot be used in ADV​ of CaDS.

This issue is impacting users who use special characters on the field name.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Manage DSNX881I messages in DB2 generated from IDAA healthcheck report

Each time the IDAA healthcheck runs (multiple times a day) every DB2 connected to the box reports on all the problems including all the issues already reported previously but not yet fixed. This can mean a hundred or more emails generated daily by...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration