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


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add a scheduled 'back up to folder' feature for TM1 database folder

add the ability to schedule automatic data folder backups, eg as zip files, to a target folder for the tm1 server.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - New Visualisation Request - 3 Dims Stacked Bar

Hello we need to have a new dataviz which is a derived from the stacked bar: being able to display data crossing 3 dimensions.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

QMF EE for websphere Edit menu to have copy, paste, replace feature

QMF EE for websphere when editing a query, edit menu is grayed out which lets copy, paste, find and replace text within a query. Currently, the workaround is use keyboard short cuts.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Account details in Activity Log for Calculation Engine Functions

When a data field is updated via the calculation engine, a generic system account appears in the Activity log. It would be more useful for the user account of the user whose action triggers the calculation engine update to appear in the Activity L...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Restart of redirected recover

It should be possible to restart redirected recover in the same manner as you can restart the standard recover utility. When running redirected recover of a large group of tables, it is a waste of time to have to restart if an error is encountered...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Better preserve formatting information in Endpoint Language Translator

We are building a chatbot with Watson Assistant and would like to integrate the translation service. Technically it works, but we loose many formatting informations while translating (DE to EN or DE to FR). We tried the endpoint document translati...
about 5 years ago in Language Translator (Archived Jan 24 2024) 0 Not under consideration

Utility for multiple job compile at server level

Hi Team, I'm looking for a Utility at server level for multiple job compile. I want to know whether DataStage have any utility for mutilple job compile at server level? I know that we have dscc.exe at client level to perform compilation! I want th...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Trash BIN

If the book is deleted its gone forever right now and there is no way to restore it, it would be great to have the ability to restore deleted books.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration