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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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Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
7 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Access to Natural through stored procedure in DVM

GISS wants DVM to provide an API-REST interface that allows a stored procedure to be executed in DVM. This functionality allows a Natural program to be executed with a stored procedure in DVM. The call is made through jcbc using a CALL to the stor...
15 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance grid-update mode in PAW to also defer recalculation after copy-paste-operation

In PAW you have an option to "defer recalculation" in the grid-update mode. This works for normal data entry and selection from picklists. However, it does not work for copy-paste operations. When users use copy-paste the exploration gets recalcul...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
19 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Adding snowflake as a database supported for analysis output tables

As part of the design of the solution for Data Quality using IBM Knowledge Catalog further database support for output tables are good to have. As per the documentation, Supported data sources for curation and data quality - IBM Documentation, add...
28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Audit Log for Forms

In the "system audit log" there is no possibility to track changes in the forms (not the data, but the structure) for example who created the form, who changed the form. We often use the functionality to track account changes, so this feature woul...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Db2 Developer Extension - Native Stored Procedure (NSP) edit in place, run and deploy from catalog listing

Currently to edit a native stored procedure, you have to make a copy of it and put it in a new file. We would like it to work like Data Studio where you can display the stored procedure in Data Source Explorer, right click and open with routine ed...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Messages improvements

From DVM Studio when selecting a BIGSQL table that the user is not authorized to, we get back a misleding Column metadata error. We would like to have a better handling of this situation.
about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change how the indoubt thread display works

Right now, if you are looking at the 3270UI display the field for indoubt threads shows the count of all indoubt threads since DB2 has been started. This is a distraction as it shows there are indoubt threads when they have already been resolved. ...
about 1 month ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improved Excel Format for Standard Reports (eg. Journals, Intercompany Reconciliation etc.)

When saving the Journal report in Excel format in 11.1, there are many redundant columns and rows. After we unmerge and unwrap the cells, alot of time is spent to tidy up the format before it can be used as compared to the 10.4.2 format.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Future consideration