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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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Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Instance Configuration encryption setup

Delivers IDR with a predefined encryption profile for Non Encrypted. This increases intuitivity on the dmconfigurets interface. Customers get confused when trying to configure their first Instance, calling for support, increasing their time to set...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced User Input Tools to Meet Alteryx Current Interface Tools

Actor: Users of a particular stream that need to configure and change prompts but do so in a much more intuitive way. Today, SPSS Modeler can prompt the user for a set of parameters that can then be used throughout the stream. The dialog does not ...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

ICAM Authentication in Cognos Analytics

We are switching our authentication from LDAP to ICAM and we are looking to implement ICAM authentication by replacing existing LDAP authentication in IBM Cognos Analytics.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clear instructions/information panel on using Document Classifier trained with custom dictionaries

Document classifiers are extremely valuable in programmatically sorting document types based on its content. The document classifier in WDS can be trained solely on parts-of-speech or in combination with additional assets such as custom dictionari...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve ADD/MATCH

Since the dawn of time, ADD CASES and MATCH FILES have required that string variables have the same length across files. This is a frequent problem., especially when the data originated in Excel. It would be very helpful if this limitation were re...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Set Fit Page to default On

In Dashboard, users can set the Fit Page property to On so that the dashboard does not scroll. It would be convenient if this property could be defaulted to On. Users are calling in because CA Dashboards are not fitting to the screen anymore. It i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Log all move copy and delete operations in the Audit database

When multiple MOVE, COPY, or DELETE requests are made at the same time (e.g. multiple reports check marked when a delete request is made), only one of impacted objects is logged in the Audit database. These types of actions against objects (e.g. r...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER to A MIGRATED FLASHCOPY

We are in DB2 V10.We recovered a tablespace to a flashcopy. The flashcopy was migrated via HSM and the recover skipped to a previous copy (not migrated). The job returned return code = 04 with the message FLASHCOPY ....... FOR TABLESPACE DBHWCOPY....
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration