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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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Clear is very dangerous in PAw

In Paw the main menu Clear is too easy to set off by mistake. It is already in the data spreading menu and should only be accessed from there, not in the first menu right click.In addition, it gives no warning that you are clearing data. Finally, ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Synchronise Action Button and Widget

Allow synchronisation between Action Button (on WKS) to Run a TI and Selector Widgets .
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Source data type in Catalog

The source data type is not visible in the catalog. The type that is displayed in not the actual Data type instead it is the "Inferred data type" and this is fully dependendent on the sampling used in the Metadata enrichment at project.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

account name in intercompany tab ( web)

In the detaim we see only the account code
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Enhanced PDF Table handling

Many customer documents contain complex tables within PDFs. WDS can currently look into the tables, but often results in several cells being concatenated rendering the text unusable. Ultimately, it would be useful to also add the context of a cell...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Add color for Min, Mid, Max in Bullet Charts on Dashboards

Reports support this feature but dashboards do not. Add this feature to bullet visual in dashboards.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Telemetry for LSF scheduler performance

LSF struggles in large farms with many running pending jobs and thousands of users in fairshare tree. LSF's struggle with heavy query activity is well documented. It would be great if LSF can provide telemetry on its own performance and what speci...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Add support for HSM messages from SLB to Recover Expert

DB2 SLB utility introduced support for providing the associated HSM messages to the utility's SYSPRINT via zparm UTILS_HSM_MSGDS_HLQ. This high-level qualifier must also be registered in HSM via a SETSYS command. Data sets that use this high-le...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered