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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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Ensuring "ghost records" are not present/generated in Neo4J's db architecture of Match360

In Janus Graph DB (v 4.8.3), we have come across issues with ghost records being generated and being unable to be cleaned up. As we look forward to Neo4J in 5.1, I want to make sure there is certainty that ghost records cannot be generated (happy ...
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Improve reliability of re-run functionality

After a server crash, current report runs must be restarted with the re-run functionality with users credentials. So the run once functionality of a schedule does not help, because it uses admin credentials. In some cases the re-run functionality ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
7 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Spooler error/Query error issue

Widely used package - huge filter - 20-30 prompt pages - more or less - don't like to save in HTML, like to bring into Excel - User experience is.. run in Thoughtspot (6 mos of data), night and day - maybe cached, whereas Cognos runs seasonal/18 m...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
about 1 month ago in Db2 0 Submitted

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

I use CDC Replication to send the data from IBM ISeries into Snowflake but after upgrading the JDBC Driver to 3.15.0 I started getting an error in the Table Mapping. The error is "Unknown datatype: TIMESTAMPZ". It is due to a couple of metadata co...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
2 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
2 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted