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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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Multiple parallel session are running for Datastage cloudpak flows/pipelines

Hi Team, We see that our cloudpak datastage flows/pipelines can be triggered/run parallelly with multiple session at same time. That should not be the case. If one session is already running, another parallel session can not be triggered. This may...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Hive-HDFS Connector Impersonation Support.

In watsonx.data, all Hive-HDFS data is accessed with single user which is used for configuring data source. Client's security and audit policies requires impersonation, so that with this configuration, watsonx.data can impersonate the end user who...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

When (re-)creating dimensions (incl. attributes) CubeSecurity on corresponding }ElementAttributes_ cubes should be NONE and not WRITE (as it is today) by default.

Deny WRITE access on newly created attributes cubes by default, in order to prevent users from entering data/attribute values.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Add retry logic for z agent on the source side

Today the IDR agent for DB2 on z only use retry logic for the target side. The request is to add retry logic to the source side. For example, a table is defined as a child in RI relationship. when you load the child table: 1. it goes into CHKP sta...
18 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Ability to export/import Controller Web Review Reports

Inside Controller classic, it is not possible to export "Reports Web". Specifically, there is not an option for this when exporting structures. => Therefore it is currently not possible to export/import Controller Web Review Reports. Please can...
19 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Submitted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted OR ... any visual indicator of if a record in WD has been updated, for eg: may be additional field in the WD index showing the update timesta...
19 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Removing excess space from the report in PAW

Problem Statement: We have developed a dynamic active form report for users, allowing them to select parameters such as Year and Department. When users select “Total Departments”, the report dynamically adjusts and utilizes the entire available sp...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Integrate with Hashicorp External Vault with alternate method (not token based) such as VaultStaticSecret

We have been able to successfully configure Cloud Pak for Data to integrate with HashiCorp External Vault to retrieve content of secrets. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=vaults-connecting-external#taskadd-vaults__steps__...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
12 months ago in Db2 2 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted