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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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Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Show more job details like in Datastage Director 11.7

Would be great to see if a job is scheduled, what the schedule is, etc. from one screen like we can in 11.7
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Watson Pipeline - Allow dragging flows onto canvas

It is tedious to go into a flow node a bunch of times one at a time. On 11.7 we can just drag flows onto a sequence. This is a major time drag on CP4DAAS.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow batch export on non-BDI-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
9 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Allow Investigation on non-API-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
9 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted