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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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Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
2 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
2 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Highlight Widgets Outside of Canvas

During development of pages in PAW, sometimes, widgets are added which fall outside of the standard canvas area that would fall outside the viewable area if the page is viewed in PDF format. A warning message is given when this occurs. However, if...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

We want to cancel all Db2 THREADS with one command in a Db2 Datasharing Member.

Today we must cancel any single thread. During a Db2 migration or shutdown you must cancel the Db2 threads to stop Db2.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sort Order

In Cognos 11.2 onwards, we should be able to sort the content in Team Content/My Content irrespective of the type of the object. Right now, if I sort, it first lists all the folders followed by Package. It should be sorted just like it was in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Adding Trusted or Endorsement badge to Data Modules

We would like to have the ability for Central IT Teams to share 'Trusted or Endorsed' Data Modules (maybe add a badge?) for our end-users to either consume the data module as stand-alone data module or for using it with their custom Data Module. W...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, More and more customers are heading up to Azure with their on prem IBM environments. We get more questions of: Can we use Azure PAAS platform or Azure SQL Services for our IBM Cognos databases. Does IBM plan on investigate these services from ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration