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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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Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Error Logs to be 'user preference' independant

In the COGSERVER.log and AUDIT database entries, we see that errors are logged in German if the user has selected German language in his preferences. While you expect the user interface to show in preferred language, the server logs are expected i...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Bug Fix - Modfy Session expiration time due to inactivity

WSL v 1.2.3 has been configured for 15 minutes inactivity time-out using the command below. (15 mins is in line with OCBC's security policy) Example.$cat /user-home/_global_/config/jwt/expiry.config xxx It is expected that the system will only log...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

QMF for WEBSPHERE - BIDI SUPPORT REQUIRED as in QMF for WORKSTATION

We have many tables that has columns in Hebrew (in addition to the English columns) In order to see them correctly, a BIDI support is required ( bidirectional text layout transformations). This is already implemented in QMF WORKSTATION but not in ...
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support hierarchies in drill through functionality

The TI Function ReturnViewHandle utilized in that feature does not support MDX views which were the only way to include alternate hierarchies. So it is not possible to create drill through processes which respect alternate hierarchies. We need thi...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cross-tab prompts in a multi-tab Business Analytics Dashboard.

Ability to have a prompt that will control behavior of objects on different tabs of the same Dashboard. Similar to channel communication functionality in Cognos BI portlets.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Human-readable status response

In the new multiobjective optimization support in CPLEX (Java API, but likely true in other APIs), querying status via IloCplex.getMultiObjInfo(IloCplex.MultiObjIntInfo.MultiObjStatus, ...) returns a numeric code (e.g. 107). This is difficult to i...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Make CADataConnector API also available for ICP4DS

Notebook is available in Cognos Analytics 11.1 with CADataConnector API. It can be used for making connection to Cognos Analytics ( packages, reports and report output ) with read and write access.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Planned for future release

PAWs "Applications and Plans" if selected "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button will benefit of been able to be connected to a process

using PAWs "Applications and Plans" if I select "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button only allows to mark that the submission has been done. The question is, is it possible to combine this "submit" button with a TI P...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration