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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

capability to access backend DB through portal customization

Certain pertinent system information needs to be disseminated to the users when they access the Cognos Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IDAA should identify and format the rest of a volume after using TDMF to migrate from a smaller capacity dasd device to a larger capacity device

We recently migrated via TDMF from mod 54 to EAV devices (4 times larger) TDMF will copy the data to a space the size of the mod 54 (1/4 of the EAV). IDAA will only recognize and use the that space wasting 3/4 of the device. We would like IDAA to ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes. As an example: we migrated our dasd from Mod 54’s to EAVs. The mod 54’s were being removed from the data center. In order to do this we had IBM remove the appliance data pools, upload a new JSON file...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

option to hide "My Credentials (Manage)" in the UI

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us we need to hide My credentials (Manage) option
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"DBRM load module cross-reference feature" be incorporate into Db2 Administration Tool

As of April 30th, of 2020, IBM Db2 Bind Manager got  'end of service' and would not be supported anymore. Some Bind Manager Function were integrated to the IBM Db2 Administration Tool v12.1 but "DBRM load module cross-reference fea...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Key rotation of DEK

Facility to rotate DEK in addition to rotation of DMK. Currently db2 does support master key rotation however for banking regulations there is need of facility to rotate the DEK as well.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

FastLane for GDS messages

As a Master Data Management Administrator I want to have a meganism (FastLane) that can priorities messages from datapools So that updates on items that are in the (Selection) Workflow are handled directly.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration