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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow additional Special Characters for Data Stage Passwords

We own the Data Stage tool, are a heavy iSeries shop, and we use Active Directory where possible for authentication to reduce the number of user ID's and passwords our folks have to remember. We have been trying to enhance the security on all of o...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos MT support for openid Connect to IBM CIS

Regarding openid connect support ie; https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/administration-openid-connect-is-available-in-cognos-analytics-11-0-7/ We need support for Cognos to support openid connect to IBM's CIS offering.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically filter rules table when the "Open Rules Table" option is selected

Within the Model Components screen, the user has the option to check a particular component and select "Open Rules Table". When that option is selected, the user is redirected to the Rules screen for a view of all rules, regardless of model compon...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Add a "Created By" column to the revision selection table under Models

The revision selection table includes a "Currently being edited by" and a "Last changed by" column, but does not include a column to indicate which user initially created the revision.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Notifications for admin when a user accepts an invitation

Notify admin once user accepts the invite. Due to some customer's Active Directory setup they have to wait for a confirmation from their users that they had accepted the invitation to PA to proceed. It would be easier for them if they get notifica...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Server Trace profile values should be tied to a specific subsystem

While in the ISPF Server Trace, I can set profile values in order to limit the number of records being viewed. These profiles should be specific to the subsystem that I am currently connected to instead of a global variable that applies to the ISP...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Return sql warning when zero/spaces are returned for invalid values in host files.

DVM allows us to turn on parameters like SQLENGIVZERO and SQLENGDFSHRC to handle situations where the underlying record contains invalid values or is shorter than the table structure. In cases where DVM converts values under the covers, a warning ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0

Use hexadecimal attributes as reference attribute in counters

Currently, Safer Payments only allows the usage of Numeric and Text attributes as reference attributes in counters. This limits the usage of counters with computation "Most occurrence value" to those two types.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability for MDM Workbench to support extension attributes of type XML

Both DB2 and Oracle support the XML datatype. MDM Workbench does not support creating extension attributes of type XML. Supporting attributes of type XML provides more flexibility in extensions. Currently the only supported XML extensions are out ...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration