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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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Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performance improvement for sync i/o

A track that is not fully formatted is not eligible for sync i/o (zHyperLink). With the existing code, DB2 sends sync i/o request to all tracks, even ones that are not fully formatted. These i/o get rejected and retried as transport mode. I'd like...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Kafka connector within DataStage.

Current State: When a DataStage job fails while reading from a Kafka connector, the records read from the queue before the runtime failure are marked as "read" and removed from the queue, despite the record not being passed out of the connector an...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

URL opens new window when running multple reports

We run a url and it runs fine to open and run a report, but as soon as you rerun or run a new job, you get an authentication error. Then you need to close the browser window and run the new report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Support for Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) in Cognos Analytics

Customer would like to increase network packet size to Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000), but, there doesn't seem to be any information relating to how this would impact Cognos. From a Cognos applications perspective, this should not have any impact.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary column...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow customer to implement skinning and corporate fonts according to coporate styleguide

Customer has own fontset since 1990 and is more then interested to use the fonts in the internet facing reporting solutions. Customer has own coporate styleguide with own icons, symbols, colors, spaceing.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release