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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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Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

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...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

StartupChores in V12

StartupChores is not accessible in V12. Update the instance configuration interface to allow the setup of StartupChores parameter in V12. As of 20/05/2024 the documentation mentions this parameter is not part of the deprecated functions but unfort...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Known Issues displayed in corresponding windows of the product

Imagine there is a known issue running a Watsonx.ai model in certain conditions, for version 4.8.3. On the page where you run the model, you have a link to "known issues for 4.8.3". That way, if the model fails, users can see it is a known issue, ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Known issues displayed in the corresponding page of the documentation

Users encountering an issue often check the documentation. If what they encounter is a Known Issue, IBM should display that Known issue on that page, because users will typically not search online for possible Known Issues. There should be only 1 ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Diagnostics should contain operator logs when installation issues are encountered

Diagnostics in the Support section only contain logs for the services involved; not for the operators.
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Link to open a ticket should contain information about the page where it is open from.

When a user reports an issue to IBM, it takes some time to figure out which page is active when the issue is encountered.The 'Open a ticket' link is a static URL. It could be improved with information relevant to the active window the user is on. ...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to export the "Audit Trail" and "Compare Revision" features in the Revision Control tab.

Clients can have the ability to export that information outside of the tool for documentation purposes.
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted