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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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Add AWS RDS for Db2 as a target database for Data Gate on Cloud

Data Gate on cloud available at AWS only syncronize data for Db2 z/OS to a Db2 Warehouse SaaS. The idea is to add AWS RDS Db2 as an target database.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Not under consideration

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

enable groups/users update routine using impersonation

on TM1py (Tm1service using Python/Rest API) we are using user's Impersonation, our real user is a prod user that is part of the admin group. the only part that we are having issues is in the security refresh. the security setting that we have in t...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add "Last Execution Status " in the Scheduler Grid View

The "Last Execution Status" field is currently not visible in the Grid View under Solution Configuration - Scheduler. By making this field visible in the grid view, it will provide users with a convenient way to check the last execution status of ...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic of the custom nodes

want a way to distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic of the custom nodes. Currently, when custom nodes are distributed, people can see the logic of the node. want a way to distribute custom nodes without disclosing the logic, for exa...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Indication of the reason for conversion by drop/create

In our environment, we try to execute all changes to DB2 tables online via Alter commands if possible. However, there are a lot of reasons why in some cases the Alter is not possible and as a consequence Admintool correctly chooses the conversion ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration