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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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Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

CDC support remote connect to MySQL slave node replication and creating metadata tables at slave nodes

MySQL has a very high market share in China, and especial to banking with core business system. Many MySQL customers use master-slave architecture, typical configuration as 1master with 3 slaves , and MqSQL as source is one major scenarios with CD...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Copying and/or revising workflows

Creating a workflow in the Open Pages platform is easy, but once its created it does not have the flexibility to be leveraged. For example: you do not have the ability to copy a workflow , rename a workflow, copy an action within a workflow, copy ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

job comparison between different environments (like in 11.7)

Currently in 11.7 - there is an option to compare the jobs between different environments. It helps to identify what actually changed comparing to the production copy and helps for UAT. The same options is missing in CP4D.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Persistent URL for glossary assets - do not change when new version is published.

Today, when a glossary asset (e.g., Term, Rule) is updated and published, its URL changes. The version number is appended to the end. We want a persistent URL that will always link to the current, active version of the glossary asset - no matter w...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

LastUpdated property in TM1 REST API: most recent processes/dimensions/...

I have often a need to sort processes by last updated time. For instance, from DEV to PROD, I only need to get the processes updated in let's say, the current month. Which processes are more recent: I don't need to push processes from server A to ...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration