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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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Do not refresh the sheet when changing SUBNM with data changed

<As is> If we would like to update inputting data we input them at Web sheet, then click the refresh button. But we can also update by changing search criteria after inputting. The problem is that it easy to imagine that user can change sea...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Planned for future release

Add connection type and server in catalog filter

When we filter assets in the catalog, besides the source, add the option of filtering by connection type (e.g. Db2, Teradata, etc.) and by server.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Powerplay Studio / PowerPlay as a container

*** Please note: IDEA for a future evolution of CA on Software Hub ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=new-cognos-analytics ) *** PowerPlay Studio / PowerPlay as a container required to allow smooth transition from Cognos Analyt...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

In Pipelines' DataStage nodes using Parameter Sets, add an option to use a paramfile

In some scenarios, the values of the DataStage parameters in a Parameter Set must be loaded from a file at runtime. This option is possible through DataStage paramfiles. However, when you're running DataStage jobs from Pipelines using a DataStage ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Db2 could support the UPDATE option for Db2 z/OSMF workflows

whenever an RSUyymm maintenance makes significant changes to a install job and/or workflow member it gets regenerated via the UPDATE option which should result in a quicker turn around less prone to error Note: found a similar request made in 2022...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add Option to Create a new job step to Action Menu of Report

Currently, we add new reports to an existing job by navigating to the job and editing it by adding a new job step. Our idea is to add an option to the Action Menu of the report which would allow us to add it it to an existing job. There is current...