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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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Request Ranger Support for SPSS

Our company uses hive tables to validate data in hadoop. We use an application called Ranger to control authorization to hdfs and hive. Since we use Ranger the actual hdfs file permissions and hive access controls are not used by us. Currently it ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Survivorship rules for consent

There is no doubt from the many GDPR conversations we've had with clients that there will be many different approaches to survivorship of consent, both in terms of different consents received for the same individual, and in terms of survivorship w...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Externalize the IFI abend count

We would like a method to externalize the IFI abend count so we can be proactive about identifying IFI abends and prevent IFI and the monitor trace being disabled. Alternatively there could be a msg externalized when the count gets to various thre...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

need to fix security breaks in Apache web server

Our internal security scan has found couple of Breaks related to configuration in Apache web server used for CA v11.1.1. Our question is, do we have plan to fix them in future releases or we will need to submit enhancement request in order to get ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Admin rights to new WKS instance

When I create a new subscription to WKS, it does not automatically assign any rights to the creator. WKS tool assigns admin rights to the first person using it and now others cannot even find who has admin rights. This makes it hard for us to admi...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need to improve quick scan to support SAP HANA with native connection type.

The quick scan in the CP4D 4.0.6 is supporting SAP HANA only with generic JDBC connection type. But it does not include 'the other objects' like aliases, synonyms and clolum views etc which are supported by SAP HANA native connection type. So the ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Alpha sorting on username for PAW security

PAW security usenames can not be sorted alphabetically. This makes administration more difficult. Creating an alphabetical sort option would make finding users and administering security easier
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Storing of enriched/additional information outside of the standard data model

in DNB we have to save a lot of information outside of the out of the box FTM Data Model. The main strategies available out of the box are: - use object values/id references --> this leads to a quick proliferation in key value objects which imp...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration