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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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Allow for all Action Usage at Merge

It would be beneficial is we could update more than just inputs at the time of Merge. Having the ability to reference all possible actions would provide more flexibility and allow for quicker usage of data. There are payloads that along with updat...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
4 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Add Group By query type to Simulation queries.

Ad hoc and other similar queries available for Simulation data are limited to a configurable number of records allowed. As a result, it is not always possible to get back all of the data of interest in a single Simulation query while also maintain...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL does not support Reject Link in DataStage on CP4D.

PostgreSQL does not support Reject Link in DataStage on CP4D.
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add parameters to SubsetMDXSet and HierarchySubsetMDXSet to allow invalid/null MDX expressions

SubsetCreateByMDX has a parameter to allow MDX expressions to save even if they evaluate to null or invalid. There should be an equivalent parameter added to the following functions - HierarchySubsetMDXSet - SubsetMDXSet Reason is a lot of times s...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to control cplex memory consumption

Nowadays optimization runs are more and more conducted in the cloud, in kubernetes environments. In kubernetes, the processes run inside containers in what are called pods. To prevent a pod to be killed when the node (machine) capacity is exceeded...

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted