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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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Fall back to previous IC if latest IC needed is unusable

The Db2 RECOVER utility falls back to a previous image copy if it finds a needed image copy unusable. This is also true if a recovery plan in Db2 Recovery Expert uses the Db2 RECOVER utility. However, if Db2 Recovery Expert uses a recovery plan th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Control PAW Application Announcements over TM1

Only a PAW Admin can create Announcements in a Application. It also has to be done manually. It would be helpful to generate a announcement automatically. For that it would be practical to use a cube/view as source for the announcements.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PPT and DOCX Viewer in PAW

It is possible to share a document via link in PAW. It would be helpful if PAW can display the common file types like PPT and DOCX directly in a Book.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to pre-filter data before dq rule execution

Currently we have a workaround using DataStage flows which is very complicated for end users to do themselves. We here in 2H 2023 there will be something using virtual tables?
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

3rd party software, The Control Machine, runs right before Distribution to assign accumulators. FTM assigns accumulators at ingestion based on DOW/TOD but if UOWs take too long to get thru the system, PNC wants to call Bus Rules to reassign which could include pocket, endpoint, and accumulator

FTM assigns accumulators at ingestion based on DOW/TOD but if UOWs take too long to get thru the system, PNC wants to call Bus Rules to reassign which could include pocket, endpoint, and accumulator
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Error to be displayed when saving a rule with feeders but not skipcheck

We recently experienced the following issue: A manual action made the skipcheck code disappear at the top of our code. We saved the rule without receiving any error and then closed it. This change resulted in big performance issues of our service ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alert/notification of crypto keys expiration

Currently there is no way to tell when your Cognos Crypto keys will expire. It takes them expiring and the site not launching and causing errors before you are aware there is an issue.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BDFS to File Connector migration support

Hi,We are currently using HDP 2.6.2 from DataStage 11.5.0.2 and using BDFS stage. Since Connector Migration Tool does not support the BDFS to File Connector conversion, therefore we would like to see if IBM has a solution. Thanks
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

extend the size limit on the security rules

as a developer many "Read" security rules are implemented for the business requirement, and we notice that the limit for the amount of read implementations is reached and is more complex migrate all this rules to a view or object side or Java exte...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Future consideration