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


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IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to just one IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Create report directly from dataset

Need the ability to create reports directly from a dataset without having to define the dataset within a data module.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reduce Severity on U0456 ABEND for CDC Server

Whenever an apply PSB is unavailable, IMS throws a U0456 ABEND, the subscription errors out, and CDC turns of persistency for the subscription . According to IBM CDC Level 2 support, this is expected functionality. They recommend an RFE be created...
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

DSC comment support

Currently the DSC only supports /* */ style starting comments. The "normal" -- style causes the SQL to never be cached! This is naturally very bad as loads of JAVA coders start their SQL with a -- comment to internally document the SQL code. This ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give us...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Exclude content of hidden folder from search results

In many cases, security requirements dictate hiding a folder from users even though they have read and traverse permissions to it. Content of such folder should not be returned in any search results.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Edit Font Size of Data Labels in a Dashboard

Currently the data labels in a dashboard default to a font size which can be very small and hard for users to read. It would be very helpful to have the ability to change the font size of the data labels in addition to being able to toggle them of...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create UI/UX for Watson Assistant users to view, delete, and add counterexamples

Currently, via the web tooling, there is no way to view or delete counterexamples in the WA workspace. You may add them using the "Irrelevant" tag in the "try it out" panel, but after that the counterexample is not easily inspect-able. This cause...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Planned for future release

Delete an account on the planning analytics on cloud and from the instance

To delete an account, we need to delete the account on the user administration of planning analytics on cloud using the "remove access" and after manually delete the corresponding user from the instance. The deletion is not automatic.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration