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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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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.

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Generate alters for tables with Lobs without providing ddl of auxiliary table

This idea results from Case TS005582671. the problem there is, that admintool-compare cannot generate reasonable WSL for altering a table that contains a lob-column. Actually the create-auxiliary-table-statement must also be provided, so that the ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability for MDM Workbench to support extension attributes of type XML

Both DB2 and Oracle support the XML datatype. MDM Workbench does not support creating extension attributes of type XML. Supporting attributes of type XML provides more flexibility in extensions. Currently the only supported XML extensions are out ...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

right management for data module source searching

When searching for a possible source for the creation of a data module, the results lists displays data modules, packs and data sets.If my profile grants me read rights on a data module but not on the repository where the data module is hosted, th...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit log for users logging via WEBGUI

We would like below auto log for users logon via WEBGUI 1. Real desktop IP address to logon WEBGUI in audit log instead of WEBGUI server2. User list for logon WEBGUI on GUI
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration

Add diverging color palettes (especially for use in heatmaps)

Add one ore more diverging color palette for visualization especially in use of heatmaps.(Currently only sequential palettes are in.) Popular choices would be Red-Blue, Blue-Red, Green-Yellow, etc. Here a few examples of palettes
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enable multi-factor authentication for Cognos Controller Cloud

With increased global cyber security activity / threats faced by businesses across the globe, it would be great to enable multi-factor authentication functionality to Cognos Controller Cloud that aligns to the ACS Essential 8 maturity model.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to perform credential mapping at DS project level in Administrator client

Currently the tool functionality allows us to do DataStage credential mapping at a user level in IIS web console. We are looking for an ability to perform credential mapping at DS project level in Administrator client.
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Modeler Ditinctnode Create a composite record for each group specification

When we use "Composite" option in Distinct node, for each field in "Composite" tab, Modeler will create a corresponding aggregate operation behind the scene, based on the definition specified in "Fill with values based on". All these aggregation o...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add multiple Calendars/ Public Holidays on OpenPages

This would be useful as the bank operates in multiple countries, each with their own set of public holidays/bank holidays/religious holidays. This would assist in ensuring that time periods for specific tasks/ reminders are appropriate per country.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration