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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Enable Instana monitoring for Watson Assistant

Instana not possible to use for Watson Assistant. WA pods are evicted. The root cause of the issues was that the Instana product injects a jar file into a temporary directory, called EmptyDir, which has a preset limit of 1Mi. The Instana jar is ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

A clean Environments selector list for IBM cloud environments

Hello, Every single day I need to select multiple environments from the IBM PA Home page (https://www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com/). My list is such that there are almost 20 environments, and it will only grow. In a support ticket (TS014673742...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REPORT RECOVERY - new syntax requested to externalise just the image copy and log datasets

REPORT RECOVERY provides the CURRENT and SUMMARY keywords but even for these options the job output is either very verbose (Unit of Recovery, SYSCOPY entries, Archive log datasets, volume numbers for the LOG datasets etc) or too little (just the v...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Have the DB2 CLP Support Database Names Greater Than 8 Characters

The DB2 CLP does not recognize database names or aliases that are greater than 8 characters. Please enhance it to support longer database names.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages. Currently the max it can go is 500 and if there are more models to be downloaded, it cannot be done with single export. We request you to please ...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration