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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.

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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Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Oracle 12c Release 1 64 bit Client / Windows 2012R

InfoSphere Information Server on Windows2012R2 should work with Oracle 64bit client for client data sources. The 32bit Oracle client isn't supported by Oracle, somehow. Customer wants to use Windows 2012R2 because they use an Oracle RAC SUN solari...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Preserve joins with accessing multiple underlying DVMs in a single SQL statement

I have a SQL statement that joins 3 tables from 1 PEER DVM with a single table from a different PEER DVM. Currently DVM is breaking this statement into 4 separate SQL statements before sending them to Db2. A better approach, when possible would be...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Show LPAR on ISPF panels

We run the same DVM subsystem over multiple LPAR's. When jumping between ISPF sessions, it would be helpful to know which LPAR we are currently on.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0

Support btop with a job name.

We need a feature to btop a job name to put all the jobs with the specified job name to the top of the queue.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Simplify the Removal of a specific select string or rusage from a running or pending job

It would be nice if we simply had the ability to bmod away a reservation without having to reconstruct the entirety of the bsub -R "blah" syntax. I would much prefer to do something like: bmod --remove-reservation mylicense [options] jobid ... V...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically update security exits without having to recycle DB2

We have a situation where customized source code had rebuilt because the original was lost. If we have to make multiple changes to get this to work, we have to recycle DB2 each time which is not practical for a prod environment. Even when insertin...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Communicate truncated reports

The setting for Data display row limit (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=settings-data-display-row-limit) applies to Exploration View, Quick Report, and list view. It also affects Custom Report. While this is a very usefu...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

No way to test Powershell scripts on the Data tier in the cloud environment

Configuring email to work on the cloud for our customer was very difficult because there was no way for me to test my Powershell script in the cloud environment. Email access to the SMTP server only worked from the data tier (not the server itself...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration