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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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Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

VEMKD performance improvement by caching VEM_LOGON

When we do regression test say 800 instances, 50K slots, we found out VEMKD thinking a long time. By having checked performance, it took minutes to finish VEM_LOGON. We request to either cache logon information to eliminate unnecessary ones
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

User defined Grid Columns

Introduce the ability for users to amend columns in a grid view swapping in and out object fields
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Incorporate standard logging of events on OpenPages application server

Our company have a standard in submitting all application logs to our enterprise SIEM tool for monitoring. We had inquired with the OpenPages Product Support team but their response was at the time, no standard messaging capabilities - see TS00260...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

Enable the Usage of alt. Hierarchies in SUBNM Formulas

When creating a custom or dynamic report the SUBNM element selection is pretty much the heart of those. Allowing Hierarchies to be used in the SUBNM element selection can drastically enhance the end user experience by tailoring the visible element...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

current IMS log reader TAPE contention behavior needs to be improved during change stream activation

Please refer to the PMR 02209,69G,760 and APAR PI71320 submitter page.--- start of the APAR quotation ---The current IMS log reader VTS contention behavior needs to be improved. Contention occurs when the IMS log reader attempts to access an archi...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Support for Custom Transformer (Parallel) Routines in DFD

DataStage Flow Designer in 11.7 does not support custom parallel transformer routines. When attempting to compile a job that uses a custom transformer routine from the DataStage Flow Designer interface, compilation fails. This results in a hard de...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

FTM IP Process Steps Have User Exit Enabling "Routing Ticket" on Per Message Basis

Background The current FTM Immediate Payments products of TCH, SCT and HVP allow a bank to customize the Services called at each workflow step (e.g. PreCheck, PreSubmit, PostAccept, etc). The limitation is the customization is limited to a payment...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

mgt1 monitored only on active node

The system doesn't monitor for problems with interface mgt1 on e1n2 and e1n3 when e1n1 is the active one. This needs to change as those are also important links and system should not failover to a node with broken mgt1 connection as that is the on...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration