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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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Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Ford standard is to use GCP storage for applications installed on GCP. The following storage options are currently supported on Google Cloud infrastructure, But Ford needs Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data: • OpenShift Data F...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) should be able to use a DB2 file as input from iseries

Very often a user gets a list of (hundreds or even thousands) similar changes to make. He gets the list of course in excel or text file and needs to type these in a green screen (5250 emulation). In Client acces there was a neat solution for this:...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

remove the requirement of setting DB2INSTANCE before entering/exiting maintenance mode as root

Starting from v11.1.3.3, the user wants to enter / exist maintenance mode as root user, s/he has to export DB2INSTANCE before the db2cluster command: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t00...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

PAW support for multiple Cognos BI Dispatcher & Gateway URI.

Currently there is no provision for multiple Cognos BI Dispatcher/Gateway URI in PA Workspace local(release 29), would like to have the capability of supporting multiple.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

REPAIR CATALOG TABLESPACE command for xml table space

We are working with OBJECT_CREATE_FORMAT=EXTENDED and with UTILITY_OBJECT_CONVERSION=NOBASIC for a long time without any problem. In the last time we began to work with these parameters in other DB2's that include many tables with XML columns. The...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio this is the same concept Power BI has and its in top position we already had it in report studio i dont know wh...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow non admins to see control cubes in PAw! PAx already does!

We have need of non Admin users to be able to see the control objects in PAw, but this is not an option. Only Admins have the ability to see control objects. PAx however does allow all users to see Control objects. This is the desired behavior. ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Clean left over job's daemon processes after job res finished

We have several workflows that the job script can run tools that will spawn processes in the backgroup or as daemons that will stay active once the job script ends. Since the job script ends, res will end with the exit code of the job script, but ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to configure Preview API timeout setting inside nginx API endpoint

Customers with large virtual assets that require 120+ seconds to query are unable to preview those assets inside a Catalog. The Catalog preview will fail with a 504 timeout error because the preview API timeout is set to 120 seconds. It is not cur...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information