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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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Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Provide an option, either to Add or to Replace field value at the time of Bulk Update

This is an enhancement needed for the Bulk Update feature in the Grid View. Currently when we want to add a value to the existing field, it is getting overwritten ( replaced ) . we need a feature in the "bulk update" where by we can either add or ...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

DB2 Regions creating a lot of messages for AB/S004E SYSTEM ABEND CODE: 004E in LOGREC

It was reported thru GTIECSMFDB-10132 on both the SDPLEX and SBPLEX that the DB2 regions are producing thousands of error messages in the System Logrec for AB/S004E SYSTEM ABEND CODE: 004E each day. The following error messages are filling up the ...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Alluvial chart as visualization in PAW

Make alluvial visualization type available as seen in Carbon Charts: https://carbondesignsystem.com/data-visualization/complex-charts/#alluvialsankey-diagrams This is a current customer requirement to visualize data flow between elements.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Unprofessional PDF Printout of C11 Dashboard

Since the printing to PDF of a C11 dashboard is done using the browser's printing capability, the printout (pdf file) will always include a header (page number) and footer (URL address) that are not part of the dashboard but added by the browser (...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Error during importing isx file which contain linkage between custom attributes and datastage job stages

Hello, By using istool.sh for importing datastage jobs(isx format) an error encountered .The isx file contains the new custom attribute linked to a job stage. We opened for this topic a PMR -> TS004118355 and IBM support colleagues suggeste...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

PAfE - Version updates

PAW and PASS updated regularly by IBM and IBM guidelines are to ensure versions of Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel, Planning Analytics Workspace, Planning Analytics, and TM1 are in conformance with one another. The process of updating PAfE ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Multiple Columns on LOAD INTO TABLE WHEN Criteria

We recently converted from BMC to IBM Db2 utilities. It would be very useful if multiple column names could be specified on the WHEN criteria for the Db2 LOAD utility. This would also make the functionality similar to the WHEN criteria of REORG WI...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to log unsuccessful connection requests

Our customer, a major bank, has information security guidelines which require logging of unsuccessful system access requests (failed logins). This should be able to be achieved by setting the TM1.Login logger to DEBUG. For clients using the C API ...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration