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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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DataStage Google Big Query Connector to use encrypted credential json file

Macy's is working on moving all our DataWare house to Google BQ. Currently, we have BQ connector on DataStage 11.7.1, but we can only connect to BQ using a flat pure json credential file. According to the policy of our company, flat file cannot be...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Officially document DB2_SELECTIVITY=ALL parameter setting

The query compiler statement DB2_SELECTIVITY is only documented to allow setting it to either YES or NO. However, YES is quite limited as you can only use the SELECTIVITY statement on predicates that include host variables or parameter markers. Th...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Delivered

Defraging exclusive host

Owned slots are reclaimed even when there is task running on the host. From the support case above, it turned out a designed feature, to defragment a partially host so others can borrow. Some of our apps are critical with relatively long running t...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Delivered

Disable Reports tab in LSF suite for normal users

We would like to disable Reports tab in LSF suite for normal users when they logged in . It should be visible only for admins. We dont want to expose this reports to users. I logged a ticket with support and they confirmed that it is not possible ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Ellipses in the Team Content provides a way to 'Create report'

Consumer/user do not have capability to create/delete report. However in the Team Content, by clicking on the ellipses located next to the folder/package, user can see ‘Create report’. A better approach would be to hide the ellipses altogether.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

API services required to allow attributes of an item to be updated from an external source

Real life scenario: Our primary spec contains a unit_cost attribute which is managed in an upstream system but is something we would like to display on the item as read-only for end users. When an update is done to the cost in the upstream system ...
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Jupyterlab notebook availability to switch conda environments

Currently when users work on the command line via ssh, they have a solution for creating user virtual environments and self install packages at their will.However, when they work from Jupyterlab, things are a mess:1. users don't have access to con...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 1 Delivered

Import/Export Console needs to be accessible within Persona UI and also manage movement and archiving of files

One real life scenario: Bulk loading items via a csv file is the most efficient way for our Merchandise department to create new items and is a core component of what they do. Without the ability to run an import job on an adhoc basis in the Perso...
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Remove the popup dialog for downloading files

In the spooler contents list page, when clicking on the 'Download' button PAC should initiate the download procedure immediately. Having a separate popup box for this feature is simply pointless.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Identify Query in IWA on the Database

I have an informix database and the IWA configured and would like to be able to map the query currently running on the IWA (ondwa tasks gives me the list) with a process on the database server. Currently all I see is the task information on the ac...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered