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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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Be able to change label for Description and Name

It would be really useful to be able to change the label of object Name and Description. For example, our users would like the Description of Finding object to be labeled as "Finding Title".
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

DataStage Audit

Management needs the ability to track the following: => logins by user and time => logout by user and time => All changes made by selected user within the project => When time changes were made by the selected user by project(s) and by...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Access data of SP's WLM DSSPRINT DD in execution time when called from external program (ex. Cobol)

Hi IBM, We opened CASE TS003473597 to treat this issue but as we did not have solution from you we decide to ask it by "new idea". So we have some maintenance COBOL programs that make the call to the SP DSNUTILU to run some db2 utilities, so then ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to refresh db/node directory cache to an active instance

When an instance is active, it reads the db directory and node directory information and the instance keeps it in a cache. This catalog is used for federation, to connect to remote databases. If for some reason, it is necessary to modify the direc...
about 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Better support for opening Analysis Studio in Chrome and Edge browsers - include the launch Analysis Studio icon in the Cognos Viewer when opening in the glass interface.

When using the Chrome and Edge browsers it is not possible to open Analysis Studio from a saved report view using the "native" glass interface. When opening the report view from the Cognos viewer opens the static HTML view of the report and the fi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

2G limitation in Db2 utility heap size allocation

If the number of buffers and buffer size are not user specified in the BACKUP DB command then Db2 limits the utility heap size allocation to 2G. Please remove this cap to allow for higher default allocation of the utility heap size which in turn s...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Using Ystart drop zone should result in having an adjusted value axis starting point

If you use the Ystart options in a column chart in dashboarding, the columns will effectively start at the selected Y-value, but the resulting visualisation will just show an empty space below the Y-value.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Watson Skill Tooling should provide option to import or copy paste dialog nodes

We publish Chatbot watson workspace every release with new dialog nodes , entity & intents to support new features. Each of our customers have their own instance of chatbot / workspace and they also add new capability to this bot by creating n...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

default tablespace for a user

in DB2 there is no way to fix a default tablespace of user.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Db2 load ALLOW READ ACCESS support for column organized table

Currently, if a db2 load is happening on a column organized table, users are NOT able to read the data from same table until the load is finished. It's inconvenience for the customer and its users in their daily operation. Thus, the customer wants...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration