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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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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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Automatic backup for PAW assets/ Manage PAW snapshots programatically

Currently, the data tier can be backed up by launching .bat scripts. (to create a zip) PAW reports are totally managed in the docker content store and we have no programmatic access to the creation of Snapshots. Snapshots can only be managed throu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Ability to sort the calculations list based on the column headings

Currently admins are not able to sort / filter the list of calculations that have been configured. The behaviour required is the same as sorting a list of workflows
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DataStage : Trino connector

We need a connector for Trino in InfoSphere Datastage as Trino is not supported officially by IBM. PMR No : TS016068863
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

JDBC gateway managment and installation improvements

We have segregation of duties in our environment and very strict use of super user authority. Who install the product, install it using a specific RACF group. The start/stop of the JDBC process will be given by the userid of the automation tool, o...