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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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Allow ODBC connector write to HIVE table /or File connector read HIVE table

1) ODBC connector for HIVe allows reading hive tables but doesn't work for writing hive table. It works - only very very slow and not acceptable for Big Data operation ( a few records in minutes). 1a. Additionally, If columns defined in UPPER case...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Cognos install kits to include installation option with user defined backup location

This is an enhancement for future Cognos products install kits to have an installation option with user defined backup location. Installer kit in 10.2.x versions does not give users an option to define their own backup folder location during insta...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

SQLCA -904 not offload on Infosphere Q-Replication job log on z/os

QREP didn’t externalize the SQLCA error -904 on Prod DB2.. Since we dont have a SQL error Monitoring tool on one of the BU Prod db2 enabled.. So debugging the issue was difficult.. There should be some repository/documentation where this SQLCA err...
3 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Functionality already exists

Allow for the bulk update of a secondary specification in PIM V12

We have over 300 secondary specs defined within our implementation of PIM. We can assign one of these secondary specs to a level of our merch hierarchy. Due to the disparate nature of our secondary specs, we need the ability to be able to select a...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 7 Functionality already exists

[Copy] Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists

Changing the sources of existing tabs in Cognos Dashboard.

When any changes are done to the packages and created a new version of it but the visualizations of the dashboard will be of old version of package.It is difficult to change the objects of all the visualizations to the new one.So,is it possible to...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Installation of CDC software requires insufficient space on /tmp

SLC's security policy is to have /tmp mounted with noexec option.if this default (Non changeable) installation directory has sufficient/free space as it should the installation fails. The only option is to temporarily fill the file system so that ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists

iAdvize Service Desk integration

iAdvize is a customer messaging platform which helps to engage the conversation through digital channels. They have unique capabilities like ibbu an on-demand pool of experts. I could be great to have an out-of-the-box connector through Watson Ass...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for the Dutch Language

Today we have support for the Dutch language in Watson Assistant, Watson Knowledge Studio and also in Watson Explorer Content Analytics. For customers moving to the cloud for content exploration and knowledge use cases, support across the productp...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Adding a confirmation layer before deleting a collection

I got this request from a client, who was surprised with the ease of deleting a collection in WDS if you have access to the UI (and I guess with the API too). His questions are: - Is it possible to create some layer of protection to prevent the de...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists