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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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Enable zEDC for Tempdatasets

Actually no temporary Datasets are zEDC eligible, i suppose because there is no long term benefit in space reduction. Especially DB2 with LISTDEF (for example Reorg Tablespace LIST with SORTDEVT specification of very large Tablespaces) would benef...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable 'SYSADM' authority to end users in Db2 on Cloud

In the db2 database configuration for IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager, the 'CREATE_EXTERNAL_ROUTINE' authority is required as part of setup. This is not supported on DB2 Cloud since granting it requires the 'SYSADM' authority which...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Adding Action variables to Java SDK response

I'd be possible to use the action session variables when integrating the assistant with the JAVA SDK library. This would allow customers the simplicity of having this information in one API call, instead of having to do it separatelly.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow system fields to be used in Task Focused UI Rules

Allow workflows to be driven by system fields as well as values / enumerated strings.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Improve MDE Publish resiliency to handle and retry temporary instability

We have seen occasional failures in publish jobs where a brief instability in the platform causes a few assets in a large job to fail to publish. A retry works just fine every time. To help with this the product could identify when the publish job...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

AI Forecasting - Data Commit Notification

Hello team, While using AI forecasting at a consolidated level, the notification says that forecasting is completed, but the forecasted values do not show up immediately. I understand that the spreading process is still running the background. Sin...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration