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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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Enhance Dataset stage to include Compression/decompress to DataSet write/read.

IIS 11.7Enhance Dataset stage to include Compression/decompress to DataSet write/read.Enable this setting to be determined at Proj level via an environment variable for turn on/off the feature and to provide the Compression codec.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Add Classifier Operation in Watson Knowledge Catalog

I have an opportunity at Honda for Knowledge Catalog in their back office operations team. This team is charged with ad-hoc reporting from a number of on premise data sources (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, Excel Spreadsheets, Lotus Databases, etc). The...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

Integrate with the Enterprise LDAP or Domain authentication

Integrate with the Enterprise LDAP or Domain authentication Currently tool manages internal security model not aligned with the enterprise LDAP/ADS integration for the Target, CDA, MC
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Functionality already exists

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Mechanism to Lock ADMIN users from editing data inadvertently

A mechanism should be in place to Lock data so that members of the ADMIN group cannot inadvertently edit data.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Request IIS 11.3.x Client being certified and supported on Windows 10

Our company is moving toward windows 10 platform (from windows 7 currently). We would like request IIS 11.3.x Client being certified and supported on Windows 10.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Browser based Usage of SPSS Modeler

Hi all, it would be great if SPSS Modeler could be provided via Browser and not as a Client Installation. First problem for us is: To maintain all client installations at our company is nearly impossible. We could use Citrix, but the authenticatio...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos. Al...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists