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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable Instana monitoring for Watson Assistant

Instana not possible to use for Watson Assistant. WA pods are evicted. The root cause of the issues was that the Instana product injects a jar file into a temporary directory, called EmptyDir, which has a preset limit of 1Mi. The Instana jar is ...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Enable Touch Screen Support for TM1 Web and Planning Analytics Workspace

We currently have a customer whom have deployed touchscreen laptops to users. When using PAX sheets in PAW, and using the spreading functionality, we can see the value to be spread is duplicated in the target cells. This only happens with the touc...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root user

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user to check the status and get the version: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion Pacemaker commands require root access to execute. A DB2 DBA may not have root access to execute Pacemak...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Event Studio capabilty to rerun a failed report automatically

We have a daily event that runs a job containing many reports. This event is kicked out by a trigger. There are sporadic instances when the job runs and one report may fail. It would be nice to have a 'task' that could rerun a failed report in a job.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make SYSMON_GROUP configurable online

Make SYSMON group configurable online. Currently an outage is required to set or change SYSMON. While some DBAs set this whenever they build a system, others do not, and it is frustrating to request this fairly common level of permissions and to h...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Extend AO Facility User Interface to operate IA & FA channels

A similar function to the FIN LT in Administration&Operation Facility UI would be expected for the InterAct and FileAct connectivity, providing status information on the IA & FA channels and allowing operations on them.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Allow for "OPTIMIZE FOR n ROWS" to be added to DELETE, UPDATE Statements

OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW can be added to SELECT SQL. One reason may be to influence the optimizer to chose one index over another, or to not perform a SORT with List Prefetch Adding OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW to a DELETE statement results in an error: EXPLAIN A...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Design canvas features for PAW sheets

At present, Planning Analytics Workspace allows the user to include design elements, such as images and videos, in reports, but the lack of several basic features of common design tools like Adobe Illustrator make it unwieldy to create highly-desi...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show contents of all cells in a Dashboard Table

In a dashboard table (list) items that are repeated from row to row will not display if the prior column has repeating values for the same two rows. When this happens in the middle of the row it can require scrolling to find what the displayed val...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration