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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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Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for CA connector within PAfE

Currently, the Planning Analytics connector within PAfE is utilizing WebView2 for authentication and subset editor pop-ups. However, the Cognos Analytics connector within PAfE still continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll). This currently causes u...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
4 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Clear controlled field when response is changed in controlling field

When a question is made visible and editable by a controlling field, and a user responds to that question and saves their response, but then changes their mind about the response to the controlling field, the controlled field goes back to hidden a...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

One-Fecht Index Scan for SELECT min(), max()

At the moment only a single SELECT min(a) or a SELECT max(a) uses a suitable index I(a, ...). When selecting both, min() and max(), a tablespace scan is used to determine the minimum and maximum value. With large tables this behaviour is very expe...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DataStage (IIS) kafka connector to connect to RBAC enabled Kafka cluster

BOA has a huge Kafka cluster and as per GIS ( Global Information Security), all new platform need to have RBAC enabled and this being the case, we would want to connect DataStage (IIS) using Kafka connector to connect to the Kafka cluster ( with R...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Need option to get associated relationships details for catalog assets using V3 search API

With V3 search API we are not able to get the related asset count or related assets details along with their attribute values. Since we are moving to relationships as our new metamodel, we need to fetch the asset types with their associated relati...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Mark an item to go to balancing function after payment repair is completed

Provide an ability to mark/identify an item in payment repair, so that the batch that contains the marked item will go to TCR, even though the batch is in balance. Right now, the user changes the amount to all 9999999999 in payment repair to force...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review

Provide ability to update the extended MICR fields in the user interface

Provide the ability to update the extended MICR fields 9 thru 15 in the Payment repair and TCR functions. A use case can be to accept the currency denomination type (US or Canadian) for the items with Canadian routing numbers (RT format 5-3).
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review