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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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Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

DB2_FMP_FODC variable needs to be extended to application traps

Failures in DB2 may result in Trap files, by default written to the directory where DIAGPATH is set, usually $HOME. To avoid disk-full conditions, this can be redirected with db2set variables DB2_FODC and DB2_FMP_FODC for most of the FODC traps. H...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Future consideration

Warning when deleting any Dialog node that is used elsewhere (for Watson Assistant Dialog Skills)

Problem statement: In Watson Assistant Dialog Skills, you can currently delete a node that is used in the flow (i.e. if it is jumped to or if any of the children nodes are jumped to) without any warning. Real Life example of this issue: I recently...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

For Reconciliation reports in Cognos,Please group the party vs counterparty information rather than breaking the Party vs Counterparty relationships into multiple sections

Business Users have reported that they are facing issues with the reconciliation reports breaking the party vs counterparty information.
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information

Enabling the "XLS" option avaialble for reports along with "PDF" and "XLSX".

The user find it more efficient to format the data in XLS format for Cognos Reports.
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When exporting snapshot or slice of a PAfE (PAX) Excel workbook from PAW : add the possibility to not include hidden sheets

When integrating a PAX / PAfE workbook in a PAW book, we can go to Export menu and select Excel Snapshot or Excel Slice, but the number of exported sheets is much more than expected, due to the existence of hidden sheets in the workbook. We need a...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration