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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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Process to enable TLS 1.3 on DataStage versions

Need process to enable/upgrade TLS 1.3 for DataStage 11.7.1.X versions. This will help to enable new security features and meet the audit. Product :InfoSphere Information Server: Data Integration (DataStage)
about 2 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Submitted

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
about 2 months ago in Watson Discovery 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...
3 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 ...
3 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.
3 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Known Issues displayed in corresponding windows of the product

Imagine there is a known issue running a Watsonx.ai model in certain conditions, for version 4.8.3. On the page where you run the model, you have a link to "known issues for 4.8.3". That way, if the model fails, users can see it is a known issue, ...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted