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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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Support a unique identifier concept in data sources

A developer or admin working with the Watson Discovery service is going to want to keep it as closely in sync with the content in all of the data sources they are working with. As content changes in the data sources, developers need to have an eas...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Provide a less database centric view of data sources

The data platform needs to provide a less Database centric view of each supported data source. Currently any user wanting to move data from a source such as Salesforce is required to have a deep understanding of the database structure and associat...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Alternative of Updating All or Changed Fields for SQL Update

When replication of SQL Update, only changed fields are updated now. The data consistency cannot be guaranteed if any changes are happened during the period of no replication is executed. All fields updating is required for SQL Update data replica...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

users of WDP, not just Data Catalog Admins, should be able view policies that are in place and they are responsible for following

Currently on the Admin of the policy manager can see the actual policies that are created. It's critical that other users should at least be able to view policies that they themselves are suppose to be compliant with, and they will be subject to w...
about 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Controller web intercompany reconcile

At present all liability balances are shown as positive in the intercompany. This means matched intercompany balances show as unmatched. This is a key part of the appeal of the Controller web which would be extremely useful for our subsidiaries to...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

IDAA LOADER - TCP/IP Port

In order to avoid unauthorized use of the port number, the network team needs to associate the port number to the task that will be using it. Due to naming conventions, the Started Task name is 8 character long containing environment indicators (e...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Controller FAP to continue do IP even due CAMID is missing from controller database

The FAP process for IP should not stop for a error if a user is not found in authentication source, or the XCAMUSER table is missing values for CAMID. The FAP process should jump over that user account and continue with the rest of the accounts. I...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

asking for the feature request where the suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod in cases where tasks continue to run for suspended sessions when hosts where the tasks were running before...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

Show throughput (records/second) between stages in DataStage in Pipeline Run

Background: Databand's integration with DataStage reports record counts of inputs and outputs as metrics once a run has completed. In order to measure the efficiency of data being transformed and moved by DataStage, it would be helpful to see the ...
12 months ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release