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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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Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
3 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted
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Different icons for default run format of reports

In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
3 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Need support for Teradata query banding in CPDaaS DV service

The Wells Fargo Customer Excellence team is chartered to build and deliver high priority analytic products. Wells Fargo selected IBM CPDaaS as their solution to 1) virtualize data from Wells Fargo's on-premise data sources and 2) build analytic so...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Python 3.11.x is not supported in IBMSC 2.5.1 spark 3.3.1

Currently Spark 3.3.1 does not support python 3.11.x, it requires spark 3.4 or greater. Please release IBMSC 2.5.1 support for spark 4.0 or higher at the earliest.
13 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Provide an option for Deferred merge method in Snowflake destination

https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/connectors_example_push_based_java/img/e5a0394034661f7.pdf Deferred merge is a pattern whereby you maintain a temporary or hot data table (1) with changed or new records for an interval of time. When that ti...
13 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

CHCCLP – Password Encryption

The credentials are given for datastore connection is in clear text format which is a risk. CDC should have a mechanism to encrpyt and use the encrypted password in CHCCLP.
27 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Generate Microsoft Word Documents from OpenPages

It would be very useful a new functionality for users to generate Mircrosoft Word documents in OpenPages. With this functionality users could automatically generate documents using information from different objects using a Microsoft Word template...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review

Drill to Leaves from Right Click Menu

In an Exploration in Planning Analytics for Excel, it would be a huge time saver for an end user to be able to drill to leaves (or a level of their choice) from a right click menu. This is a common need for users. The set editor is a little heavy ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration