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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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bhosts <single hostname@remote_clustername>

In a multi-cluster environment,bhosts does not support specifying single hostname of remote cluster. projectjiwoo@vwpm224ev16 ~ % bhosts hpcmgr0007hpcmgr0007: Bad host name, host group name or cluster name If we run bhosts <single hostname@remo...
29 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

PAW - View a small text base file in Drive Explorer

This used to be easy on the rich-layer, but with PAW and Drive Explorer - can we have a viewer for small text based files that you can add to favourites like txt/html/ps1/cfg ? It can also be a widget for a paw book like a frame that points to a f...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Include latest Java version for DB2 in interim Fixes and special builds

DB2 special builds that address security vulnerabilities do not include the latest available Java version for DB2. If you update Java for DB2 to the latest available version on FixCentral and later apply a special build, Java is replaced with an o...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Provide Alerts on Long running Jobs based on the historic runs

Can we add a feature to alert DataStage batch administrator based on the history of long running jobs.
7 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

When DB2 writes a message to the DB2 Log, DB2 could also optionally write the contents of the message to a new IBM Catalog Table SYSIBM.DB2_Messages or a user defined table.

WHY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA Many of our DB2 subsystems and members remain active for several months or more. Searching for a DB2 Message can take a long time in SDSF when analysing and diagnosing problems. Having all of the DB2 Messages in a Table mak...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

MDX comment in Subset Editor

Hello all, I would like to continue to have the ability to comment the MDX expressions in PAW. I am used to be able to comment MDX expressions in my subsets from the TM1 Architect. Also it is very interesting for the business department. There are...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

#emea #csm #mea Integrate IBM Knowledge Catalog Governance into DataStage Flows

Issue: Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, data protection rules defined within Watson Knowledge Catalog are not directly applied to DataStage flows, even when governed assets from the catalog are used. This creates confusion and a sense that no...
9 months ago in DataStage 3 Future consideration