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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
10 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
7 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DVM JDBC Gateway official documentation missing

The official DVM documentation does not provide the necessary steps to configure the DataSource connection configuration on JDBC Gateway using SSL and Kerberos on z/OS LPAR. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dvm/1.1.0?topic=ssl-enabling-support https://...
23 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
8 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

MER Message List - visible Values for Reference, Amount and Date for DNIMX messages

in DNIMX messages there is no visible values for Reference and Amount , it is difficult for users to find their message in message view
17 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

Allow inplace reorgs cleanup overflows on partitioned tables with global indexes

We are seeing more OLTP customers moving from Db2 z/OS who require the ability to cleanup overflows through reorg on their partitioned tables which have been defined with global indexes.
17 days ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Submitted

Manual Input of Business Date in Evaluation Screens

Attached is a screenshot showing how the various evaluation screens for ML and LLM display the date and time when evaluations were executed in a time series graph. I would like to request the ability to input the business date manually instead of ...
4 days ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
8 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release