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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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Db2 FCIC should provide option to avoid taking long time with IGD17291I message

Please refer to the existing RFE ID 126885, "FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I", opened from z/OS (DFSMS DSS) side, also. The data amount will be extremely increasing in our customer. To minimize data unavailability, they are trying to...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IDAA should identify and format the rest of a volume after using TDMF to migrate from a smaller capacity dasd device to a larger capacity device

We recently migrated via TDMF from mod 54 to EAV devices (4 times larger) TDMF will copy the data to a space the size of the mod 54 (1/4 of the EAV). IDAA will only recognize and use the that space wasting 3/4 of the device. We would like IDAA to ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes. As an example: we migrated our dasd from Mod 54’s to EAVs. The mod 54’s were being removed from the data center. In order to do this we had IBM remove the appliance data pools, upload a new JSON file...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

PAW Text-Box/Title with dynamic Content from Filter

Reports/Dashboard are more readable if tiles point to the version and period shown in the report. "Revenue 2020 for Company A" could be an example.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Elimination of Dropdown list

Client environment uses LDAP for Active Directory, since the Client Active Directory domain has several domains (BDS, and CDS) when two namespaces have to be created in order to recognize users in each domain(BDS or CDS). This is an SSO environmen...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Application Trace

Customer is complaining that he is unable to perform traces on DB2 threads coming from the distributed side. These threads arrive all to DB2 with the same plan name ('DISTSERV'), and the only way to tell them apart is to use the Correlation ID (CO...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode

Request to have DataStage certified / supported for SELinux enabled in enforcing mode.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release