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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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"Move" option for devices

Requesting a better functionality to move devices to/from different groups. A "move" option would greatly benefit admins with promptly moving devices. As of right now, in order to move a device, if placed in an incorrect group, device must be remo...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Needs more information

I would like to see service performance against standardized set of SLA's and KPI's for Software Support

Would like to understand how IBM is performing against their SLA's and if any trends are emerging from tickets raised under a particular service line or product.
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Needs more information

Change the order of the items in the category sidebar

Please find the screenshots in the attachments. The customer hopes that they can change the order easily in the category sidebar such as by dragging. Even when they do the reordering in the csv and then import the file to the category, the reorder...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

PAW: Dynamic Subset in row in a cube view

Currently, a dynamic subset is not possible in the cube view in the row. I want to customize a dynamic subset currency depending on an attribute of another dimension in the row. If PAW wants to compete with SAC, then this function is extremely imp...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

We need "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task received by client" and "SIM PID" info in task_attributes table

I compare the difference between task.soamdb file and task_attributes table. I do notice when I do "soamview task" command, it will retrieve data from task.soamdb file. However, our users want to know "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task re...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Needs more information

Text cell format in PA Workspace

To optimize the use of automated reports, we need to have the possibility to add comments (text format) using colors or bold fonts for example. Today, we only have the possibility to add black and white comments, with simple fonts. Thank you.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
8 months ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Needs more information

download user group, roles and permissions

to be able to download a list of all available user groups and roles to be able to see what has been set up and available to use that is more accessible than the current hover over pop up on each item. at the moment it is very difficult to see wha...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Customized abbreviation dictionary to improve data class assignment and searching for business terms

Capabilites similar to Erwin and other data modelling tools in which abbreviations can be expanded for search and for field name recognition. Ideally, each field could also have an automatic "expanded" or un-abbreviated alias. Column name ABS_VAL ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Show throughput (records/second) between stages in DataStage in Live View

Background: Databand's integration with DataStage reports record counts of inputs and outputs as metrics once a run has completed. In order to measure the efficiency of data being transformed and moved by DataStage, it would be helpful to see the ...
5 months ago in Databand / Feature 0 Needs more information