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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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Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
over 4 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

Ability to disable Notifications for Bulk Update of Fields and Bulk Workflow Actions

When users use the Bulk Udate feature from a Grid view, or they complete Workflows in Bulk from a Grid view, the system shows them the result of the operation directly in the UI. At the same time an e-mail notification is triggered to the user. Th...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
8 months ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Submitted

Host name Control in datastore to prevent reverse DNS lookups

Using Access Server, we have datastores that connect via IP and every time it try’s connect it does a DNS reverse lookup and times out. The datastore accepts IP and hostname, we need a way to stop the DNS reverse lookup for the connection.
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update for 11.7.1.1

We have received an email from Snowflake that any Snowflake client driver versions lower than the following will reach the end of support as of November 1st, 2024, according to Snowflake Support policy: • Snowflake SnowSQL 1.2.24 • Snowflake Pytho...
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

PAW | Advanced Synchronization | Respect Sorting when utilizing Member and Descendents from a Selector List

The Selector List Sort Order does not reflect in the MDX generated within a synchronized view utilizing the advanced synchronization feature. For example, we've built a selector list containing only Departments and we have created an advanced sync...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow Kerberos authentication with connectors.

We have been informed the only long term solution for a single ID within our network to get access to all our PostgreSQL databases is to make use of Kerberos. We have security constraints in place that prevent company wide access within our networ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Remove email notification when workflows complete "Run in background"

We have custom actions on workflow steps which take a while for it to complete, because of this when a user triggers the action step, they are greeted with a loading screen. A way to mitigate this is to set the step to "Run In Background" so that ...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review