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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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Shutdown gracefully of IKC

Background: - Customer needs to restart the CP4D cluster to do maintenance operations as explained in : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CPDIDEAS-I-2164 - The only service left with the "shutdown" feature for my customer is IKC. - Also, it will help us...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

CP4D - Need Super Operator Role for Cloud pak for Data (DataStage) Projects

We need a Super Operator role in CP4D (DataStage) projects which is equivalent to Legacy DataStage role. Please find the following tasks which Super Operator can perform. Cloud Pak for Data Super Operator (DataStage) Can perform the following task...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Need better warning text when deleting folders

Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SSO (Single Sign-On) for ODBC connections via ActiveDirectory authentication

The current configuration of a SSO (Single Sign-On) authentication for a Windows workstation is based on GSSCSM, for which support will be discontinued in future Informix releases and is very complex and error-prone. Alternatively, ODBC connection...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Under review

The jobs were developed in Watson Studio Notebooks in Python, they did not stop working when Python moved to a new version.

When the Python Library is updated, all jobs developed in the last version stop working. If it is possible to keep the work developed in the old version working for 1 or 2 previous versions of the current one. This possibility helps to have more t...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Command confirmation in joblog of DB2MSTR.

DB2 has many commands which display or alter the status of something. There are a lot of distinct environments from which the commands can be executed (z/OS console, DSN session, TSO DSN command processor, IMS or CICS terminal, special STPs, IFI-i...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Keep the replication functionality in the 2.1 release

IBM support just notify us that replication and synchronization functionality that exist and has existed forever with TM1 is going to be deprecated for now and IBM does not have any new feature for replacement. We have been using this functionalit...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration