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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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Record usage of application plan

In our production environment we have about 15000 application plans. Most of them are probably still used but a lot of them have not been used for several years. We want to get rid of the old ones not to have to rebind them at every new release of...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
about 1 year ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow IET to be locked by period

Currently there is no allowance in security to lock IET against changes, including past IET periods. Coupled with no audit log capability to track, there would be no clue as to what was changed. This will affect prior periods if consolidation was ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

OOTB Integration of watsonx.ai with watsonx.data for fine-tuning foundational models for the organization

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, however, they have raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. This is a roadblock to their adoption of watsonx. One of them is the OOTB Integra...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Issue different return code when no rows loaded

We have an IDAA loader job that disables the table prior to the load to IDAA. Upon successful load of # rows, Loader will end with RC = 0 and enable the table for acceleration again. If the same process is run multiple times and results in "no row...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Option to select "OpSystem" user in Applicability conditions on workflow

Option to select "OpSystem" user in Applicability conditions on workflow. IN cascading workflow on the same object Sample Workflow A is calling Workflow B, I dont want user to See workflow B in action, However Currently I do not have option to hid...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration