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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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Optim Installation support for the IBM Packaging Utility

Use case:Deliver Mass Automated Deployment of Optim to End User Workstations Business justification:This RFE will help enable the Optim Archive to pass HSBC security standards in order to make it solution to be used in a self service basis.
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Add a database option for force application

Add the following options : force applications all for database dbalex;
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 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.
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0

Method to quickly change visualizations to an exploration

We need a quicker way to change PAW visualizations to explorations. To day it requires at least 4 clicks edit mode->click visual->click blue box->click visualizations button->select exploration. Many times users want to get to the numb...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to send paw object to a new/existing book.

Users want more options for the duplicate button. Users want to take content from a public workbook and replicate/move it to a personal workbook to customize it.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Scorecard diagram enhancement

Currently, if I use the impact diagram on PAW on a scorecarding cube that was created via Modeler the page because my scorecard is so large, builds out to be as large as the page would need to be if the scorecard was fully expanded out. My request...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Standard forms to have a formulae to auto select opening balance of actuality and period selected

change the way the form structure works to allow the first column in a standard form to be the OB actuality for the actuality the form is opened in.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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...
about 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...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration