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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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Timestamps in system generated messages in STDERR in a java WLM.

The STDERR in a java WLM does not include a timestamp of when the message was written. It's hard to cross check the system message produced with an application issue.
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

In Dashboards provide Buttons for custom Navigation between tabs and possible other Actions

The User experience in a Multi Tab dashboard can be much improved with on screen buttons rather than tab names. This would provide for a more tailored and user/company specific design (only if required). Too often a prepared design (wireframe or s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Control DEFER YES/NO based on type of index

Provide mask to control the DEFER setting based on the UNIQUERULE(SYSINDEXES) of the index (either via REXX or standalone). Currently the REXX won’t handle this because the Db2 catalog row sent to masking is the SYSINDEXPART row which doesn’t cont...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Publish multiple FM packages at once

There can be multiple packages in a Framework Manager model. If you want to publish several packages you have to to this sequentially. A possibility to mark several packages and publish them at once is needed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to backup & restore individual services without needing to restore the entire namespace

With the exception of a few services, customers currently only have the ability to backup and restore the entire namespace. Customers require the ability to backup and restore individual services, rather than the current 'all-or-nothing' approach....
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Develop a project role that can edit notebooks but cannot add assets to a project

Currently the project editor role is required in order to do development within a notebook. However, the project editor role also allows a user to add data to the project from catalogs. These are two distinct permissions. We would like to see IBM ...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

First of all please include Log Analysis for red hat in your Product pick list. Second, I have successfully implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Log Analysis. The development team sent me instructions. I would like to see this RBAC in a future release

We operate in a multi-tenant environment. Users do not want to see (or in some cases not permitted to see) events unrelated to their roles. IBM developers have come up with an ingenious way to implement RBAC for Log Analysis.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration