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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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Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow paste over calculated cells

Currently if you try to paste a row of data down to another row but one of the columns is calculated you get an error message. I would like to suggest providing the ability to paste the data but ignore the calculated cells. As an example if I am p...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Case Transition with MEMO Save

Currently users have to enter memos and then save them and then transition the case to close. It would be helpful to have the memos automatically save when cases are transitioned from one state to another to avoid any lost messages.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Heatmap Visualization - Display detailed values in legend instead of only MIN/MAX

As now in PAW 2.0.63 in New experience, the heatmap legend is only indicating the min/max values and do not give any further details about the heat graduation values. This does not allow users to estimate easily the gap between each "heat".
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Make auditing Dashboard usage more straight forward

Currently, when looking at the audit logs around dashboard usage, a single run of a dashboard will show up multiple times, once for every widget on the page. There is no way to determine how often a dashboard is run without getting extremely infla...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flexible OpenPages installation options

Currently the OpenPages Installer runs a series of pre-validation checks with minimal optionality to ignore these checks. A few examples: Forced to install to install (or at least pass validation) OpenPages & Cognos, even if I only want to ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration