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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Additional CDC monitoring feature

hi, As you know Classic CDC for IMS providing basic support. Nowadays it's important to monitor subscriptions' latencies, status or states for IMS side. It is posibble to monitor cdc for DB2 via API but we need same development for IMS. Before thi...
about 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 2 Future consideration

Add permissions to allow a User to upgrade Discovery environment size

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Discovery ins...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2 lock escalation should be able to break-in into UOW running REL(DEALLOCATE)

At DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the following scenario : Changing CICS work to run REL(DEALLOCATE) from REL(COMMIT) was made possible in DB2 11 as BIND and DDL can now break-in. The change should give a CPU-reduction. However running b...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Color-coding report tabs

Report pages can be rendered as tabs in Reporting. However, it is not easy to differentiate one page from another. It would be easier if the tabs could be formatted with different colors
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

Selector Properties: Allow Access to +/-

Allow a Modeler to define whether the expand and contract (+/-) in a selector are available for the users.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change REST API Error Messages So That They Reflect Security Access

When a user does not have access to an object the REST API returns an error that the object does not exist. This is confusing and makes troubleshooting difficult. The API should return an Access Denied error if there is no security access.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow selective email overrides for the Notification Default Sender

Users who initiate a burst report, have the default email address taken from Cognos Configuration under "Notifications". Several users would like to be able to override the default email address with their company email address. Currently this ove...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The request expire time for HF scheduled request

We are expecting the instance request overwrite the RequestExpiry set in Template, and keep the request active until end time set by the scheduled request. There is high chance instance got terminated by AWS due to various reasons. Keeping the req...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Future consideration

Please test with and validate Windows 2022 for Optim TDM V11.7

We currently have Optim TDM V11.3 running on Windows 2016. I am working to plan a new server build where we would install Optim V11.7 on a NEW Windows server. I see from documentation that I can find that ONLY Windows 2019 is listed (unless I am l...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

LSF to track SSH and child processes on machines running LSF jobs

To prevent users from sshing into nodes that they do not have a running job on, to restrict the SSH session to the resources that the runing job has on the machine (e.g. cgroups ), to track the ssh connection and any other spawned processes for ac...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration