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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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Allow use of the REUSE keyword on basic/non-advanced recovery plans

When the DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS generates basic recovery plans for one or more tablespaces, it currently provides no provision in non-advanced recovery plans for the user to specify whether the REUSE keyword should be used in the generation/...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Hide or show only specific options in the menu bar in a Planning Analytics Workbook

We would like to see an option to toggle the menu bar on and off in Planning Analytics Workbook as well as being able to select what options on the menu bar a user can see. Would also like to have this option be specific by book, so the author can...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Index Access for MERGE sql

The sql MERGE should simplify the life of a developer. Instead of implementing an insert update logic you could just use a sql statement with merge. In case of a merge statement is to update an index column this index can't be used in the access p...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Support for additional DOCUMENT TYPES in Watson Discovery

We're dealing with many different document types and our ability to focus on Watson is limited but its support for only basic document/artifact types in Watson Discovery document injestion. We encounter many but by percentage here are our top 10...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Using Virtual Dimensions in Dynamic Report in PAfE

In order to enhance reporting, PAfE will be part of our journey until PAW has a workable alternative. Having the ability to report on virtual dimensions, makes the flexibility and timeous turnaround of changes to reporting dimensions fast and viab...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

A utility to import MX messages into FTM is wanted.

Idea created : 02 FEB 2022. Today it is possible to : Import FIN messages from an input file or data set and create, for each FIN message, a corresponding IBM Financial Transaction Manager for SWIFT Services message in a target queue. (see l...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

Visual Modeler interface for CPLEX in DSX

In our current DSX offering we enable programmatic access with Python API for CPLEX engine to solve optimization problems. Leveraging this capability requires a user to have deep technical and programming skills. Iterating across scenarios with mo...

Bulk Update: Order of questions to follow order in questionnaire and follow dependencies

questions listed in alphabetical order, is it possible to list them in the order they are asked? Also-I remember during show&tell, all dependencies on the questions were available on bulk update as well, you could not select an answer for a de...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered