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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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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...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under 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.
over 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

Spark UI ports blocked by firewall due to randomized ports in IBM Spectrum Conductor2.5.0

SPARK UI ports are being blocks by firewall since ports are assigned randomly starting from 18480 instead of 18080 as specified by documentation. Also, In IBMSC Jupyter notebook, SPARK UI port in sparkcontext is assigned randomly and is blocked by...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Functionality already exists

DOEADMIN members should have the ability to review all Pull requests

The members mapped to DOEADMIN (Super User) group should be able to view and manage the pull requests raised by any team. The reason being 1. In general they are DBAs/ Sys progs. They should have a view on the pull requests irrespective of the te...
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions.

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions. However, Db2 does allow a change to a column's default value on the temporal table without changing the same col...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 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

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration