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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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When data is scanned using Quick Scan, customer would like to see options to be able to publish the data into a specific catalog and not the default catalog

Data Security Officer would like to restrict access to certain asset information to a group or division of people. Being able to publish discovered assets into catalog would be a big step towards achiveing zoning.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Enable Options to attach supporting in Journals

There is no option to attach backups for Cognos journal. Enable option to attach documents.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Function inside Planning Analytics that will track user login

Function inside Planning Analytics that will track user login and accordingly System administrator should be able to block the user login who have not logged inside Planning Analytics for X number of days. This will help to extract the dormant u...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

WHERE-Condition for DB2 Connector Stage

The DB2 connector stage should have a WHERE clause field to provide filter expressions to limit the number of rows when using "Generate SQL" = "Yes". There is a similar feature in the DRS Connector Stage.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

support queue level container parameters

We need to be able to use the EXEC_DRIVER mechanisms in a way beyond bapp, as there is only one bapp allowed in a job submission. Many of our automated (and locked) job flows already request a bapp, so they cannot use another bapp.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

need readonly credentials for Watson

hello, we use watson conversation service and are wondering, why it is not possible to have read only API Credentails for this service. is it possible to get a user who can send messages, but who is not able to create/delete/update a workspace?
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

The REST step found a large input data item whose size actual data size exceeds the supported size limit maximum data size li

DataStage job is not able to import the file of size 350MB using xml hierarchical stage. When we tried to import the file of lesser size the response from REST API call is Success. Where as in this case the REST API response is Fail. In this case ...
almost 7 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

IBM Textsearch for zOS uses old JRE

As Java SDK V6.0 is no longer supported by IBM and the Product IBM Text Search for DB2 for zOS delivered with DB2 V12 still works with this old version, it would be diserable if this Java would be changed to common used version. (Open J9) Ther...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Power9 zlib accelerator for backup and log file compression

Db2 supports NX842 accelerator on AIX. This has some limitation like restoring of such an backup image is only possible on AIX and cannot be combined with AME and AMS and also requires a license key to enable it.Compression and decompression in so...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered