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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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Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

REORG PART LEVEL PBG tablespace

When I run a PART LEVEL REORG (PART 1 in this case) of a PBG tablespace and the current data doesn't fit into its original partition DB2 adds a new partition at the end and uses it for the "overflow" data, although all the already existing partiti...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Plot Mapbox maps using Eastings/Northings

We would like to be able to use Eastings and Northings to plot points on Mapbox maps.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration

Warning message before session time-out.

Users do not get prompted that their session may be about to time out. Adding a warning similar to Bank websites that warn you your session is about to end. We could for example provide the user the opportunity to save work, extend the session, or...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Text Risk List Entries Having Option for Case Sensitive/Ignore Cases

We have clients who import attributes that are stored as text (Merchant Name) into their risk lists and the file they are importing comes through as all capital letters due to how their internal database stores the data. In order to account for th...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Add additional security for NZ SaaS

We would like to see Netezza SaaS allow a CIDR block to allow only legitimate IP addresses which would limit others coming from the Public Connection to gain access.
7 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

PAfE: TM1RPTROW Function, Option to disable the hidden repeated nested rows

We found multiple case where the consultants and users are not aware of the feature that hides repeated titles for nested rows when the report publish to TM1Web. I think adding a parameter to enable/disable this feature on any level (TM1Web config...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration