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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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Allow more than 300 characters in data asset descriptions

Hello! When we started editing some data asset descriptions, we received a message that it was not allowed to use more than 300 characters. We understand that allowing longer descriptions would be interesting, especially in a data catalog where we...
28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Multiple parallel session are running for Datastage cloudpak flows/pipelines

Hi Team, We see that our cloudpak datastage flows/pipelines can be triggered/run parallelly with multiple session at same time. That should not be the case. If one session is already running, another parallel session can not be triggered. This may...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple rules add the ability to sort

In a rule, the related artifacts (terms) when they are multiple they are listed by order they were assigned. We would like to have the ability to sort the column
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add Support for Hash and Hash iterator Objects in SAS Code Scanner

CWB leverages Hash and Hash Iterator Objects in our SAS code. Manta currently fails to parse these which has resulted in gaps in lineage, preventing end to end lineage . The details of the needed HASH support can be found here: https://documentati...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support grant_type "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in JWT auth

We are trying to connect from cognos on-prem to Trino database using JWT authentication via External Namespace. But connection fails because cognos does not support the grant type " grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" in ADFS O...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Allow to use the Prompt Tuning feature from the Tuning Studio with any model

Model evolution is very fast. The client wants to leverage the last models as soon as they are released. Being able to prompt tune them is key to clients since: - it is a quick win to improve prompt engineering - does not requires a lot a time and...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted