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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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Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add Columns as Suppression Options for Lists

Crosstabs provide 4 Suppression Options based on Rows and Columns whereas Lists allow only for Row-based suppression. While Column-based suppression can be achieved in a List by using render variables, this is very time consuming when multiple Col...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Period Interval in Custom Reports to expand

current list of period intervals are YTD, 1,2,3,4,6,12 and NPY. It happens that user requires interval 5 & 7 and is unable to find, hence has to work out the interval 5 & 7 values in order to present in excel-linked report. Hence, user is ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Data traffic encryption

IBM Netezza Performance Server does not support data traffic encryption when Kerberos authentication is enabled. All data is sent in open text despite kerberos having the functionality to encrypt data transfer. This is a huge security gap that sho...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

db2pd -inst attemps to collect PureScale information in a non-PureScale environment

db2pd -inst attempts to collect - quiesceinfo and - iperiodic even though they are not appropriate options for the non-PureScale environment. It seems like db2pd should be smart enough to collect the information appropriate for the operating envir...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Resubmit functionality is not available for report in 10.2 format

Resubmit functionality allows user after entering parameters and executing report navigate back to parameters page with all parameters values entered before the run. This feature is available only when option 'Run with full interactivity' is set t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report all SQL calls in native stored procedures in Query Monitor

See case# TS003954339. Sometimes Query monitor doesn't capture the SQL statement but gives the message: CQM145I - SQL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE, instead. IBM case states that these are internal SQL calls in native stored procedures. In my case they were ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration