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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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Updating free text search instruction

We are using Free Text Search which is great for the customers, however is it possible to update the instructions note provided against the Free Text Search? Every customer is unique and they need not necessarily be a super user to understand the ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

DB2z Custom Routing of Utility Messages to DDs

Sometimes you need to quickly review only certain utility messages from a very large output of several utility executions, or only a few where there might've been many, many objects processed. It is very awkward to have to go through perhaps thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

LSF does not allow jobs to moved from low to high/medium priority queues if there are limits set on medium/high priority queues

We have a setup as follows 1) High queue limit 3 2) Medium Queue limit 4 3) Low queue no limit and the default queue for usrs to submit jobs 4) Very low queue, will be used to use licenses effectively When a user submits 6 jobs for example in high...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Patched Spark 2.4.3 as new micro version

Supporting multiple patched versions of Spark 2.4.3 on a cluster, in order to facilitate per SIG Spark 2.4.3_patchversion roll out. This will require a Spark 2.4.3_version for every new patch.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Ability to refresh a single Map and not the entire Maplib in batch

Modify the AVZMREFB REXX to allow for the refresh of a single VSAM MAP and not the entire Maplib. When controlling the refresh of VSAM maps in a batch environment where the VSAM files are reloaded frequently there is the need to control the refres...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Change ddl of table with data capture changes on

Because we use in our env IDEP. IDEP needs datacapture on to get all U/I/D actions on table to be promoted to the anther env (where IDEP is connected to). Sometimes we hit issues that we forgot that datacapture is on the table , and in the change ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Open all Forms as a single report

A command to generate all applicable Forms in one go as a report. This will help the review process.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Certify Information Server with SAS 9.4 M6

We are using Information Server 11.7.1 and have multiple ETL jobs that use SAS connectors to execute SAS code from the ETL server ( SAS 9.4 M3 ). However the SAS version has now been upgraded to SAS 9.4 M6 and the connectivity via the provided con...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 4 Future consideration