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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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Operator role at the project level

In traditional Datastage (Information Server), it's possible to assign users and/or groups the Operator (or SuperOperator) role where the user cannot modify the project but can run jobs. A similar role doesn't seem to be possible in Datastage Next...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PlanningAnalytics for Excel

Hello, we need the function ElIsAnc for Perspectives and PAfE. This function would be very good for controlling the formatting of each line element in an Active Form without complicated detours using an ELISANC check.It would also be desirable to ...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration
118 VOTE

Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Pipeline AutoSave Option Disablement at Project Level CP4D

AutoSave Pipeline: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It's observed that there's no explicit commit option for Pipeline (Sequencer). And by default, the Auto save option is enabled in CP4D. A manual effort is needed to disable the property at every pipeline le...
10 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Be able to 'Save As' processes to other PA services

For small scripts and testing we often test something out in UAT/DEV. It would be nice not to have to go through a whole migration process to save the process to production
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
21 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Install CP4D using private registry in OCP with unqualified-search-registries configuration

If you are planning the installation of CP4D, but the customer has OCP configured with unqualified-search-registries (called also "image short names" and configured in image registry via containerRuntimeSearchRegistries). So, during installation, ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Include latest Java version for DB2 in interim Fixes and special builds

DB2 special builds that address security vulnerabilities do not include the latest available Java version for DB2. If you update Java for DB2 to the latest available version on FixCentral and later apply a special build, Java is replaced with an o...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted
210 VOTE

Bursting reports with email notification

Would like the ability to burst PAW reports as PDF.Would like the ability to burst PAX reports as Excel Slice, Excel Snap-shot or PDF.eg. TM1 Perspectives Print Report featureWith added email notifications and ability to email burst reports by rea...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 9 Planned for future release