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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Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow additional Special Characters for Data Stage Passwords

We own the Data Stage tool, are a heavy iSeries shop, and we use Active Directory where possible for authentication to reduce the number of user ID's and passwords our folks have to remember. We have been trying to enhance the security on all of o...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cognos MT support for openid Connect to IBM CIS

Regarding openid connect support ie; https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/administration-openid-connect-is-available-in-cognos-analytics-11-0-7/ We need support for Cognos to support openid connect to IBM's CIS offering.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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

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

Ability to suppress messages for Action Buttons that run a TI

Current versions of PAW pop up a running/complete/failed message when running a TI. This can be a nuisance for use cases where the TI may need to be used frequently. I would like to have the option to suppress these messages, similar to the messag...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

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