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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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DSNTYPE(PIPE) support for TEMPLATE utility

Would like to be able to dynamically allocate a z/OS Unix Named Pipe via the TEMPLATE utility. LOADing to and UNLOADing from named pipes is extremely useful, for example, to copy data between different Db2 systems on the same z/OS image. In JCL, t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Last Name field is empty in OpenPages

The users who get synched from Cloud Pak for data to Openpages should have proper first name and last name. Currently in Openpages full name going as first name and last name with empty value.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Auto update capability for Reporting Feature.

As of now in the Reporting feature when we try to start a reporting for few catalogs and projects and it's successfully gets completed after couple of hours and it will be idle, so here the ask is after the Reporting gets completed, next day I'll ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Need MDE execution statistics as like MDI in Reporting feature.

In current ICP4D v.4.6.5 reporting feature, after reporting gets established for catalogs/projects, etc. in the target database there is a table for MDI called metadata_import_executions but we didnt fine any similar table for MDE. So the request ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Request to Limit Connection Creation Process to the Source DB while running MDI/MDE

For Example: We have an Oracle connection with a limit of 20 User Sessions per user. When we try to run an MDI Job using the Oracle Connection, The MDI is exceeding the limit of Sessions ~20, here the problem is we are running this MDI/MDE on the ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard Save As show Recent Saved Folder NOT Team Content root

When creating Different Version of a Dashboard, each time I want to save a New Version, I would go to Save As and see my Recent Folder which I have saved Previous VersionsYet, each Time I go to Save As, it brings me back to Team Content (root) whi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

timeout notification

For accessibility Compliance of WCAG 2.1 - LEVEL A- Compliance 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable, We need to provide a notification of timeout to our end users for any time less than 20 hours. I understand that there are options for the user to extend time,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FTM SWS, Enhanced resilience in z/OS High Availability configuration.

Case: Having FTM SWS running in High Availability mode across several z/OS lpars. Idea: If one FTM SWS on one lpar encounters a problem it should "step back" and let other remaining FTM SWS on other lpars take care of the workload, instead o...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Provide Dynamic Cube Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of meta-data

Provide Dynamic Cube (DC) Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of data source meta-data. This setting would allow the same DC model to reference a TEST and PROD version of a data source in which different case characters we...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All tabs/This tab filters exclusion

In Cognos Analytics as of now, when filters are added to All tabs/This tab filter, they are applied for all visualizations. Quite often it will be useful to allow to exclude/avoid applying the top filters in individual visualization (the only work...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration