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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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View another user dashboard without the edit option

I made a dashboard for a cognos consumer. I delivered it, the consumer when open it sees the edit/preview icon. I want the consumer to just open the dashboard, filtering the data and use the various drill down without has the ability to edit or sa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Balance tasks between Resource Groups

We currently use Balanced Slot Allocation in Resource groups to allow tasks to be balanced evenly between resources. However, if Resource groups are heterogeneous, or if a Consumer can use 2 resource groups, it is not balancing tasks between the r...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Controller Web Exclude certain IC journals from Reconciliation tab

Elimination of intercompany revenues are often configured as a "one-legged" elimination. That is selling company reports an intercompany revenue. This is then eliminated and also booked against a cost account. The buying company do report an inter...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

LSF - CSM Job Script Failure does not result in requeue

If a single node in a large job experiences and CSMSCRIPT Failure the job will simply complete and not be requeued for another run on a different set of nodes.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Improve error description for incorrectly formatted date values

The request body for a createEvent operation may contain a client_timestamp property whose value is expected to be a date-time in ISO8601 format. If the value does not conform to ISO 8601, the operation returns a 400 error with a very general erro...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Logstash 7.4 required to remediate Vulnerability

As part of Logstash Vulnerability remediation -> we would like to upgrade logstash version to 7.4, current version after Spectrum upgraded to 2.4.1 is 7.2. Also one more point, once delivered the patch it would be good, it deletes the older ver...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 2 Delivered

need SQL tuning component

Now, we are using DSM to manage 235 sets of Db2 databases, of which SQL tuning is a more commonly used function for our system administrators and DBAs. We often use the SQL tuning function to optimize the SQL statements running in the production e...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Avoid attempting to recover unrecoverable objects

We want to avoid submitting a job that attempts to recover a table (using advanced recover) if the table is unrecoverable, as this may lead to a situation where we have lost the table without being able to restore it. This should also be the case ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Remove the need to have SEF (Update) in order to create Web Service directories.

We want our application areas to control the creation of their own virtual tables/views and the web services structures. Currently SEF (Update) is required for the creation of Web Service directories. This access would also give them the ability t...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

IBM Textsearch for zOS uses old JRE

As Java SDK V6.0 is no longer supported by IBM and the Product IBM Text Search for DB2 for zOS delivered with DB2 V12 still works with this old version, it would be diserable if this Java would be changed to common used version. (Open J9) Ther...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered