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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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Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
12 months ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchy indentation in Picklists

Currently, TM1 picklists are only showing a flat list of elements. Users are constantly asking for a way to show the right hierarchy indentation they are used to see in a normal subset. There are cases when they want to expand/collapse members in ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Queries with DGTTs

When a query in a program uses a DGTT, there is no access path written to the PLAN_TABLE at bind time, and there is no way to see the potential access paths. There needs to be a way to see those access paths in Administration Foundation. Currently...
27 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
27 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Utilizing WCA for mainframes outside of Z and servers like IBM Power/Also utilizing it for Microfocus COBOL

Currently, client has an insurance claims application hosted on IBM Power systems written in microfocus COBOL and wanting to use WCA to modernize to Java.

EnableSandboxDimension parameter causing processes to fail

We identified a problem when we enabled the EnableSandboxDimension parameter in the tm1s.cfg file. When we adjusted this parameter to true, we noticed that several of our processes began to fail, and upon further investigation, we discovered that ...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Prevent CPD Project Users from writing and changing file permissions from Jupyter Notebook

Today, any user in a project that has permissions above the read-only permission (editor, admin) has the ability to write new files from a notebook, or change permissions for a file using chmod. This is a potential security vulnerability, and not ...
27 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Lean image for Python 3.9 for Watson Machine Learning and Watson Studio

Our clients deploying models in Watson Machine Learning or running batch scoring via the Watson Studio job framework require custom images to bring their own packages. The lean images will only contain the minimum list of packages needed for WML o...
28 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enhancement Request for User Roles in IBM Planning Analytics

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I am writing to propose an enhancement to the user roles within IBM Planning Analytics. Currently, administrative roles in IBM PA possess comprehensive privileges across all aspects of the system. However, this...
28 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted