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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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Add 'WITHOUT CURSOR HOLD' bind option

We have occasionally seen timeouts against DB2 catalog tables that trace back to long running threads from QMF for Workstation that are running WITH CURSOR HOLD
about 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Fine grain control of LS cross-cluster preemption

Prevent preemption of the jobs in remote cluster if no job slots are available in the local cluster (and, consequently, the jobs cannot start because of the lack of hardware)
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

mapping of jobs directories from Data Flow designer to Bitbucket folders

As per our requirement, DS Job code should be checked into the "Datastage" Folder available in BitBucket feature branch. However what we see is that a new folder called DS Projects with path "Training/Jobs" gets created instead.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

CPD Service Catalog to add support to manage business partner license information

Business partners' services are listed in the Service Catalog. Once enabled, an administrator needs to apply license info that applies to the service. The administrator also needs to know how much resource units (or other metrics) are entitled and...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering. As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are abl...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0

Change location of templates folder

The 'Templates' folder must be located at the root level of Team Content in order for templates to function properly. However I often design folder structures where the root level folders have dedicated purposes based on user personas. Being able ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow users to navigate to next zoom trace via a PF key

Currently, when looking at zoom information in multiple sequential trace entries, the user has to PF3 to back out of the current zoom, re-position the cursor on the next line and then press enter. After every PF3, the cursor returns to the top of ...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sync Cube Views Columns on Workspace if Expand and Collapsing

We have dashboards built where there are multiple cube views on a page and say Time is across the columns so we have Quarters across the columns. We would like a way to sync the cube views such that if a user expands the Quarters to see Periods th...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration