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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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Support daylight savings for scheduled jobs

In current state operations team need to go admin console to adjust the jobs to reflect the daylight savings. We have an operational impact if the job missed certain deadline due to manual intervention.
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Monitor IDAA for z/OS physical filesystem in size in real time

There are different UIs such as Data Studio, DSM and and Admin UI and they provide different metrics for storage usage in IDAA on Z. Such as; - Table size in data studio determined at the table level, - Used Space in data studio which comes from U...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

PULSAR Support AS target database

We have an Event HUB project in progress. The responsible team have choosen to replicate data from IBM DB2 to PULSAR using KAFKA protocol via IIDR Remote capture as architectural design. We implemented this in test environment and we will move to ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

PAW Image link from PA Cube Cell Data

Ability to store a image URL in a PA Cube Cell, and display it as an image in PAW. Ultimately, allowing the user to reelect a synchronized drop down menu, and have the image source change, and the image change with it.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data source support for SAP BW4/HANA

SAP announced new BW4HANA platform at autumn 2016, which is a performance optimized and much simpler approach than old BW on HANA solution, which IBM does support. BW4HANA should be added as supported data source to allow high-performance access t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Allow custom hardware specifications for Online Deployments such as for a Shiny app

We have users that have a need for different hardware configurations when deploying a RShiny application in their deployment space. They need high amount of memory but only need 2 cpu. We dont want them to deploy the application with a high amount...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Empty date prompt

At the moment it is not possible to create a date prompt of the prompt page that has an empty value as default. It shows always the actual date when no default value is set or when the default value is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release