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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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Allow formatting of calculated and read-only cells

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) by default calculated cells are shown with a green background, and read-only cells are shown with a gray background. This feature is very useful because it stops users from trying to enter values in calculated...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add ability to specify no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings

Currently, there is no easy way to add no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy-settings It requires modifying a proxy-envs.json and...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Search cube/dimension/TI reference in cube rules/TIs

When trying to maintain a large Application, some sections may cease being in operation, having been superceded or no longer required, but in order to clean up cubes/dimensions/TIs no longer used, there's no easy way to determine if they are still...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Indicate whether the fallback SPE for Db2 13 migration is installed

As a user planning to migrate to Db2 13 I already activated V12R1M510 on my Db2 12 subsystem. However, I also want to make sure that I have the fallback SPE PH37108 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH37108 installed. Could this information b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Planned for future release

HELM Charts for DataStage Deployment

The impact right now is to change the process and add additional workarounds for datastage at the enterprise level. As a organization, HELM has been adopted as a standard since its an industry level standard for quite sometime. This also allow mor...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Db2 profiles - Enable monitoring and enforcement of AUTHIDs

Db2 v13 offers new feature of Db2 profiles to support monitoring and enforcement of TLS secure connections. Please add ability to do this at AUTHID level. Some apps and users have converted and we could put in a profile to ensure only secure conne...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release