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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Allow DataStage to fully support kerberos authentication , even for the installation.

We have new servers and only kerberos authentication is allowed. We need to install DataStage on the new server.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

show license conflict for jobs

In the job view, license usage tab, show conflicting jobs for current usage, not only for historic usage. add the 'Conflicts' column and also, if possible, the 'Conflicting Jobs' column.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Insert a tag in email header for all the emails sent by Cognos app server

We are requesting an option to add an attribute to the mail header for all mails generated from Cognos App Server so that we can map that to some config in Amazon SES, which will allow us to capture info/metrics about all of the outgoing mails.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To monitor system resource usage at database level in a pureScale environment

All current monitoring facilities can not meet customer requirements to monitor overall system resource consumed for a specific database, in a database consolidation scenario of pureScale. PMR#: TS000078803
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Echo predicate functinality for sub queries

Issue Statement: Echo predicate is not working properly to eliminate partition and query is taking longer time to complete Filter With Hard Coded date: Query completes in 2 secs , since it is directly hitting the July 31st partition alone SELECT *...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

It's not supported to use ASCII and UNICODE tables together (SQL0873N)

Case #000080573 DB2 Z/OS supports multi-codeset objects in one database but LUW does not that. We cannot do JOIN, UNION ALL, or SELECT ~ INSERT between these tables which are all supported in DB2 Z/OS. In addition, DB2 Z/OS has a function like UNI...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Report "Pending status" duration of batch/interactive reports in Audit

As per number of (batch/report service) processes and affinity connections set in dispatcher tuning properties, number of parallel reports will be limited. When all configured processes and connections are in use, any new report gets submitted wil...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Access AWS Redshift via VPN

Currently WatsonStuidio has to access AWS Redshift via internet (public network). Requirement is to make this communication secured ( by VPN for example)
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Functionality already exists