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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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Pipeline Run Metrics in the Ops console DB

To collect the run time metrics of pipeline is currently missing on CP4D environment. In On-Prem routines are helping to capture this metrics for all jobs and sequence. but on CP4D is limited to only DataStage flows. Looking for pipeline metrics t...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

MDM 11.6 and 12.x compatibility checking with OCP 4.14

ICICI Bank has planned to upgrade their OCP platforms from OCP 4.12 to OCP 4.14 and wanted to know whether their existing MDM setup ( MDM 11.6 and MDM 12.x) can be supported on OCP 4.14 platform. However current IBM MDM product release document fo...
2 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Submitted

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted

Quick search on entries over all monitoring/defined risk lists

In case you make intensive use of monitoring / defined risk lists and have many of em it is a lot of manual work to check if a given attribute/value is on which list or on which list and if the entry is still enabled/valid. Show me all defined ris...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Need better warning text when deleting folders

Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Implement more granularity processing on "CORRELID" to force more parallelism at Q Apply

We have an application with a high criticality and high workload running Q Replication in a bidirectional mode.This application uses CICS transactions, TSO Batch, Java Batch, local zWAS and distributed transactions as well.And because batch jobs c...