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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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Issue with Kafka connector within DataStage.

Current State: When a DataStage job fails while reading from a Kafka connector, the records read from the queue before the runtime failure are marked as "read" and removed from the queue, despite the record not being passed out of the connector an...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Include Package name in the report parameterized URL

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over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add SID to audit log

Audit logs should have session ID for two main reasons: - Currently there is no way to correlate different entries or operations of the same session. We have PID, but for Java applications this is not presented.- In certain situations it can be us...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0