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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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Workflow Action that loops over a Multi Select Field

For some processes, end users may opt to select fields in a multi-valued picklist. In those events - such as a RegChange, it would be great if we could loop over those results and create objects and do other actions like in a Loop. So in my Regcha...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

Integrate RACF into ADMIN tool

Would be nice to have for 'DB2 under RACF'-sites that we can see on a object which auth RACF Profile rule is used. And see who/groups are on this profile. And give an message if you dont have auth to see this (in RACF organised)
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
8 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Host name Control in datastore to prevent reverse DNS lookups

Using Access Server, we have datastores that connect via IP and every time it try’s connect it does a DNS reverse lookup and times out. The datastore accepts IP and hostname, we need a way to stop the DNS reverse lookup for the connection.
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update for 11.7.1.1

We have received an email from Snowflake that any Snowflake client driver versions lower than the following will reach the end of support as of November 1st, 2024, according to Snowflake Support policy: • Snowflake SnowSQL 1.2.24 • Snowflake Pytho...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

PAW | Advanced Synchronization | Respect Sorting when utilizing Member and Descendents from a Selector List

The Selector List Sort Order does not reflect in the MDX generated within a synchronized view utilizing the advanced synchronization feature. For example, we've built a selector list containing only Departments and we have created an advanced sync...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted