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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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[GUI][Usability] - checked consumer admin users on consumer properties

On the consumer properties view (WEBGUI), there is no way to list the checked user for this consumer only or make the checked user in the beginning. It is so hard to look through over 4000 user lists to get Consumer Admin, Consumer User, etc.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

APIs for extracting some info from XMETA

We are currently using ETL jobs to read ETL execution logs(from DSODB) and ETL job modification details(from XMETA). This details are very important for auditing. In the CDP version, can you please include some APIs to get this information extracted.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Labelling a column changes access path

With table TB1(COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4) and index IX1(COL1, COL2, COL3), query: SELECT COL1, COL2, VARCHAR(COL3) COL3, COL4 FROM TB1 WHERE COL1 = ? AND COL2 = ? ORDER BY COL1, COL2, COL3; requires sort even though the order by is following ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable a Time out value if an Active CM is unable to contact a configured Standby CM

Enable a time out value if the active CM is unable to reach a configured standby CM for any reason, and unregister the malfunctioning CM from the list of dispatchers
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provision in CDC API to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs?

I understand that CDC API can be used to read the transactional data from any of the active informix logical logs.Do we have a provision to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs? If no, I would like to log an en...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

PAW - change default picture of books and folders

In PAW when creating books or folders it shows the default pictures. The possibility to add custom pictures would be much appreciated.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ldap users authentication to ODBC MongoDB drivers in DataStage

Hi, We're trying to work with DataStage and mongodb, Our need is to work with MongoDB with SSL and AD users. We understood that Those drivers supports only SSL for now. We need to enable the logon to MongoDB in DataStage with AD\Ldap users....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Update the Watson Assistant UI code in Github to be mobile first/responsive.

Mocking up a quick chatbot is an extremely powerful method of showing clients (IBM clients or clients of ISVs) the benefits of Watson Assistant and how quickly it can be done. I have experienced this being extremely diluted because of the lack of ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration