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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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Planning Analytics Upgrade - Automatically update VBA code

As part of the PA upgrade due in 2025 as the old version goes out of support we need to rewrite all VBA code for the new RESTFUL API. Perhaps watsonx can help to automate that for us and any other upgrade activities.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add microseconds to the Db2 pureScale log timestamp to match what Db2 z/OS is doing today.

We require accurate microseconds from the Db2 pureScale log in order to process our CDC messages via infosphere. Currently LUW logs only go to the second and stop. We currently use Db2 z/OS across a 3 member data sharing group. We have CDC turned...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Default the report properties to the report view properties

There is no way to change the Default Portal Action globally, only at a report level but it does not propagate to the report views. A report is created with the 'Default Portal Action' changed from the default of 'View most recent report' to 'Run ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature that would let a Cognos admin to request a user's credentials be refreshed

One logical...even likely...scenario is that a Cognos admin views the license usage and discovers that one of the license groups has more users assigned to it than are actually owned by the customer. After researching which user has been granted t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Keep formatting from PAW view when exporting to Excel

The request is to keep PAW view formatting also after an export to Excel is done. Exports from a PAW view to excel becomes a raw data export and very hard to navigate. Often simple formatting has been applied to the PAW view on row or column level...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

SHUTDOWN DB2 WHEN RACF EXIT FAILURE

After RACF EXIT is abending and failing , DB2 is changing back to Native DB2 Auth checking , If you migrated to RACF exit this can lead to unwanted behavior , we would want a ZPARM or OPTION to make DB2 shutdown if the RACF EXIT is not wokring
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Enable to set storage quota on projects / spaces

We want to avoid possible incidents if a runtime in a project gets out of hand and starts saving too much data locally within the project / space in CP4D. This can cause the underlying PVC to run out of space which can impact other users on the pl...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Enable Comments in Saved Output Versions

Many of our Cognos 10 users used the enable comments in saved output version feature so they can capture their commentary with their reports. We would like to have a similar ability in CA 11 to view existing saved commentary when viewing a saved o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for zOS correlated column behavior

Problem statement - unqualified column name interpreted as correlated reference. As per example below: DELETE FROM SYSADM.T1 WHERE COL3 IN (SELECT COL3 FROM SYSADM.T2)--> DSNT404I SQLCODE = 012, WARNING: THE UNQUALIFIED COLUMN NAME COL3 WAS INT...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration