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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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Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to export message list of a FTM MER Queue to a spreadsheet.

Our users requested to have the ability to export the message list of a FTM MER queue into a excel spreadsheet. This would especially be useful when the message list may span multiple pages.
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Read Only PAX

To ensure data entry to a planning model is only allowed through a TM1 Web Application allow a separate read only control so that when users are accessing the same cubes using PAX they can only view the data
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Timeout on Cloud RDP sessions is far too short

The time out for Cloud RDP Sessions at only 30 minutes is way too short. The login process is cumbersome and takes a few minutes each time. I also find that if my laptop goes into sleep mode that although I can log back in to the RDP sesssion, it ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

TM1 Web URL API is not supported on the Cloud

According to IBM the TM1 Web URL API is not supported on the Cloud. Some functions might work but not all. In particular when opening a Web Sheet via the URL API it opens in non-tabbed mode regardless of the settings in the TM1 Web Config. Therefo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Pull the database schema change directly from one instance to another

It is an important use-case that developers who work closely as team mates would have needs to pull the schema change from the colleagues before the schema change is committed/approved/merged into application master branch. DOE pull-requests APIs ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

PDS-E should be created when new DSN are being created. Currently PDS is being created.

PDS-E should be created when new DSN are being created. Currently PDS is being created.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration