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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Request IDAA V7 Container code via Shop Z and SMP

Today, V7 container code for both IIAS and Z are downloaded from Fix Central. It is a different download and website than normal Stored Procedure and other Db2 related maintenance PTFs. Some customers have download issues such as download runs for...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reservation of nodes for spark job/ Labeling, Taint and Toleration of workers and spark pods 

As an CP4d service provides we would like to use special worker nodes only for spark job execution called via the pyspark API. One reason for this is, that we sometimes see that the spark jobs use up all resources. In this scenario we would like a...
about 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Datasets - size restriction and size monitoring

Administrators should be able to set a limit for the size of a data set. Administrator should be able to monitor the sizes of Data sets.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Row based security using session ID in Data Modules

We have a need for row based security in the data modules. Ideally we would be able to filter content based on the session id of the user against a security table that is part of the model. Our business analyst users can do this in other tools and...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale as a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

Allow Transformer To Run In 64-Bit Mode

Allow transformer to run using 64-bit dispatchers. Note that this not a requirement for transformer to take advantage of any extended functionality 64-bit might entail. We simply want transformer to run within a Cognos Analytics environment having...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No Web server Monitoring for Planning Analytics

We don't have visibility about Web Servers performance, and it would be good to have more information about memory consumption (at least).
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration