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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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Enable methods to view simplified data lineage instead of complex web-like visualizations

Implement an option to view simplified data lineage by default, as an alternative to current complex, spider-web-style visualization. This will improve usability and clarity for users seeking high-level lineage insights. We are requesting an enhan...
3 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Ability to control/renew V12 API Key expiry date

Currently in PA aaS the API Keys have an expiry date of 365 days. This is not displayed anywhere and learned it the hard way. Talking with the support, it seems an Expiry Date column will be added to the interface. Now the enhancement request is t...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Better way of handling Azure authentication in the Resource connector

Currently, the only method of authentication in the resource connector involves storing the credentials in a credential file, specifically in the LSF AZURE_CREDENTIALS_FILE parameter within the Azure configuration file. However, storing credential...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector

Enable support for image gallery in Azure resource connector. Currently, it only supports managed images, which is an outdated method. Microsoft doesn't recommend this, and most current technologies don't support it. All new features, such as Arm6...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Planned for future release

Enhanced Export command

The EXPORT QUERY command currently allows users to export only one single query at a time to a dataset. We have users asking for a way to export multiple queries all at once to single dataset for backup/reference purpose. And users have thousands ...
14 days ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add the possibility to export free form in Controller Web

In the Export Company data which was delivered 2020: BACC-I-243 you cannot in any way export free forms in Controller Web meaning that the reporters can not export all forms thru controller web for documentations purposes which is needed in some c...
29 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Please allow QMF Vision to support .NET 4.8

I am at an organization that has .NET 4.8 installed on all of our work environments. We are unable to install .NET 3.5 therefore we cannot use QMF Vision.
about 1 month ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Usage of Reoptimization for remote applications with DB2 Profiles

In many access path issues for applications with remote dynamic SQL statements reoptimization techniques (similar to the REOPT(ONCE/AUTO/ALWAYS) BIND Option for Db2 packages) controlled by Db2 profiles should be a performance benefit
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CDC (IIDR) - Support for Merge operations on Sybase

Adding MERGE support to the CDC Sybase engine will enable customers who use MERGE operations on Sybase to replicate the activity on target database engines. Currently MERGE operations are not guaranteed to be logged by Sybase in the transaction lo...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

MERGE statement should respect table DDL's default values and specify column in Snowflake stage

When processing data with the Snowflake destination, it does not respect the target table's DDL for default values. For example, if the table has a column with the default value set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in Snowflake, the stage will just insert a n...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 1 Planned for future release