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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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Add functionality to use expressions or functions in conditional layout for page dependent values.

Add the ability to include the list header only on the first page of the report and not have it repeating across all pages. The conditional statements work fine when in interactive HTML but not in batch (PDF, HTML etc).
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Manager and Entity Manager need to work in coordination to prevent update and merge timing issue.

Based on our findings and the confirmation from IBM support we have submitted this RFE to address this problem. We found an issue in MDM event notification which can impact downstream systems that rely on MDM EID. This is a timing issue and only o...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

unsecure root usage

IBM uses root account for everything which is a very unsecure way. Root should be used for emergency access to the system. All processes and everyday work should be done with dedicated accounts that have access only to what they need. The fact tha...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Improved documentation of how to set up and use CP4D built-in monitoring #cpfield

Documentation of how to set up monitoring is inconsistent and not sufficient. The steps are not easy to follow. It is not clear what hostnames should be used in the different steps. The url is incorrect in some steps. Docs claim that 'https://...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Optimization access paths currently used for SELECTs should also apply to UPDATEs (and DELETEs)

Currently, as I write a SELECT query with a correlated Sub-select (and no other predicates), I see that the optimization for that query uses a non-correlated sub-select and the query runs very fast. But, if I use exactly the same predicate, but wr...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

zDb2 should provide option to not write RACF statistics without coding any Db2 Signon Exit (DSN3SSGN)

Banca d'Italia, for many good reasons, wants to get rid of any user written assembler exit, including DSN3SSGN .They use DNS3SSGN only with the specific purpose to not collect RACF statistics and so they have modified it by adding STAT=NO on each ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IMPALA ODBC/JDBC - LOGON with LDAP user when KERBEROS is Activated

As mentioned on IBM Case Number TS003596483, we need a way to connect IMPALA ODBC/JDBC using LDAP when KERBEROS is activated on Cluster. On ODBC, using AuthenticationMethod=-1 and AuthenticationMethod=0 it shows "socket closed" error. Using Authen...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

db2stop re-confirmation command option

This is an enhancement request to incorporate a reconfirmation message before stopping a Db2 instance in standalone, HADR or in pureScale environments. The reason for the ask is to avoid DBA's or users typing db2stop instead of db2top by mistake. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration