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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Upgrades: Stop schedules upon import but not disable

Upon import, allow the administrator to turn off all schedules to prevent them from running in two locations at the same time (the old instance and the new). This is most relevant when upgrading. Note, this must be a separate option than enable/di...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

DB2 Trusted Contexts do not allow ADDRESS wildcarding

To request that DB2 Trusted Context allow wildcarding of TCPID addresses in the ADDRESS attribute.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Custom template with attached package in CA

Hello, I want to make template with attachment package, because I use only one package and all the time, when I make new raport, so I have to choose this same package everytime.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cobol to Java Transformation - Suppress Missing Copybook Error Message when Copybooks are not Required.

When preparing the Cobol to Java transformation, an Exclamation error message may be displayed indicating that copybooks are missing. “COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformat...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Allow the ability to set the management, storage, and data classes the SPUFI panels.

We have a security policy requiring us to encrypt all possible 'Data at Rest'. We use the IBM solution called Pervasive Encryption (PE). Our storage team has defined SMS Data Classes that can be used to allocate encrypted datasets. In order ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow REPLACE external SQL SP with Native

Currently, CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE in DB2 13 has a limitation that " If a procedure exists with the specified name, the existing procedure must be a native SQL procedure". Migration from external SQL stored procedures to Native SQL stored proc...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Maximo Print Attachments from WO containing secure https links from Content Server

If you select an WO and try to direct print with attachment(s) linked to https or http sharepoint sites, such as Content Server, that require credential authentication, direct print will fail due to credential are null. " Error:SERRORReport failed...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Not under consideration

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Alerts for DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError at the object level

We would like to see if it would be possible to get alerts at the object level for the event types DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError. Right now, this is possible to do for getpage activity which is very helpful. A workaround we wou...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration