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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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SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

CP4D Catalog Search Capability to be improved.

When searching the catalog for a catalog asset, the search functionality does not provide a “narrowed-down” view of the search results. The user has to scroll through pages and pages of results to find exactly what they are looking for. The lower ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Inherited Access to Logical Data Model and its Entities and Attributes

The Business Users would like access to be granted at the Logical Model level, and this access be inherited by all Logical Model Entities and Logical Model Attributes, or access granted at the Logical Model Entity level and inherited at all Logica...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Before/After SQL mentioned in oracle connector is not displaying in the job log

In oracle connector, if we have mentioned any SQL query in before/After SQL, that mentioned query is not displaying in the job log instead its showing like the query has been executed. It will be helpful if we see the actual query in the job log. ...
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

To provide the option to filter the system objects metadata when audit policy enabled against db2instance user id for db2 luw database in audit captured data.

When native audit with execute category is enabled on db2instance user id , by filter options on system objects schema ex : SYSTOOLS reduces the huge amount of captured data when there is a huge number of tables in an OLTP database continuously up...
6 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature.

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature, this would default to index scans rather than a table scan if there are no statistics.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted