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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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Add feature on TFUI that would allow for a pop-up window that would let the user enter text.

In instances where a user would need to enter a lot of text, were asking for a pop-up to appear where it can be re-sized for the end user's preference.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optim support on open source Linux

We are limited to using RHEL for Optim installs on Linux. Supporting other Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or AlmaLinux is desirable to drive down support costs.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web to have copy values, journals and opening balance functions

Current Controller Web 10.3 FP1 does not have copy functions for company level like in Controller Client. to include all company level functions into Controller Web so that users can perform the same tasks as Client users. instead of asking group/...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration