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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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Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

WKC search engine enhacements (including API) for it to be more Google-like

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort of Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the sear...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Deploy SDU as a Service through a NLU enrichment

SDU brings many use case possibilities, however being inside WDS, is limited to use cases where documents are stored. With the ability to deploy the SDU model to NLU, the outputs can be used in a more flexible way.
over 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Lifecycle Management Server Mappings for Local Install

Provide the capability to map different environments (like Dev and Prod) in the Source and Target mappings of Lifecycle management so objects can be migrated between different PAW environments within a Planning Analytics Local install.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Avoid WKC quality project blank due to some certificate expiry

Asset list in WKC quality project gone/blank suddenly someday. Feel like whole system done. Customer been told the reason is : some certificate will be expired unpredicted someday between 10-13 months, not sure which day. Could we give enough time...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Provide instrumentation to count the number of IDAA FAILBACKs to DB2

Provide a facility to easily determine the number of queries failed back to DB2 for z/OS from IDAA to support audit requirements.
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide a method to accurately obtain package executions counts from SMF records

SMF record information for number of times a DB2 package executed is incorrect. As an example, when a package is executed via a thread 10 times DB2 records the SMF information as 1. Our TDS tables are built using SMF information. We use TDS packag...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Datastage to support SQL 2016

We need to be able to use the ODBC Stage in a Server job with SQL 2016
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration