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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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Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Improve the RTS collections when mass deletes are taking place.

Improve the collection and externalization of RTS especially on objects involved with mass delete operations. Please see the PRM for additional information. 91244,122,000
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

db_backup multi path option

In netezza we have ability to backup with multiple paths and need same functionality on DB2 warehouse.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Need more logging information in Cognos Administration Tool

In the "Past Activities" (IBM Cognos Administration‬ > Status > Past Activities),we can see the status of past scheduled reports.The customer also want to see the following information in this function.-Past all executed reports.(Not only ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

use "bconf" command to delete host and create or delete resource

It would be helpful for administrators. Simplify the management of HPC clusters.
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Excel data source out-of-the-box connector

We have many customers who wants Excel as data source and need out-of-the-box connector for Watson Query. Remote connection is a very tedious process and even creating it for demo purpose and showcasing it to customer is painful and it results in ...
12 months ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Protect against DOS when user has password expired

Hi team, recently we had open a support case TS004670019 on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TrWNRAA3/1222wd-db2-taking-too-long-to-login We had a situation with an automatic process that got it's password expired and begun failing t...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hierarchy processing too slow

Please refer to Case TS000137042 for details. As IBM already knows MunichRe is having major issues with the performance of the TM1 system, especially with the performance of hierarchies (in reporting as well as in processing). This ticket is for r...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration