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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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Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Need to Encrypt credentials within the application itself before transmitting them over the network in IIS UI

We are able to see the credentials in Plain text. We are not using any testing tool to capture the packet. we are just inspecting the packet in browser in debugger mode and able to see the password in the browser in plain text. Please encrypt the ...
8 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

When we try to read some Excel files into SPSS Modeler v18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.

On Modeler Client 18.5, When we try to read some excels(image-1) filled with personal information like the one below in SPSS 18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.(image-2) The same excel is read without any problems in 18.1. We ...
8 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
22 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Needs more information

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Db2 Developer Extension - Native Stored Procedure (NSP) edit in place, run and deploy from catalog listing

Currently to edit a native stored procedure, you have to make a copy of it and put it in a new file. We would like it to work like Data Studio where you can display the stored procedure in Data Source Explorer, right click and open with routine ed...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Visualization of the plan_id, resource group assigned to a query execution and runtime in a single view for monitoring rules

Visualization of the plan_id, the resource group assigned to the execution of a query, execution time in a single view. The objective is to be able to monitor scheduler rules and the assignment of resource groups. Scheduler rules have allowed us t...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Synchronization of Cloud Pak for Data Platform users/groups and LDAP Enterprise users/groups

Lockheed Martin is running into issues with group membership not being properly reflected in Service and Collaborator roles associated with the group. The CP4D groups that have their membership come from an Active Directory group are assigned to a...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Add INCLUDE file capabilities into LSF License Scheduler configuration

The ability to specify the License Scheduler configuration in multiple include files where each include file contains the separate configuration of each independent software vendor. For example, #INCLUDE /path/cadence.lsf.license_scheduler #INCLUD...
5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Submitted

Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...