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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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Import journals while reporting takes place in a form

This enhancement regards Error 47 "The form containing the account is locked for update" inside 'Import of External Data' report. In a reporting process countries report their data in forms (REPO) while group accounting performs adjustments in jou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Modeler should support the Microsoft Hive ODBC driver.

Currently no option exists to connect SPSS Modeler to Microsoft's HDInsight hadoop as a service. Adding support for Microsoft Hive ODBC driver would provide support for this data source.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp on sysmater to know when an open transaction has been created

Add a creation timestamp for each transaction so users can monitor how long a transaction has been open. Maybe like in others sysmaster tables, a column on systrans will be great.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Need a mechanism to hold an individual transaction for vetting by Safer Payments, while allowing other transactions to pass

This would work with Safer Payments to allow valid transactions to flow through FTM for processing, while only holding back individual transactions requiring more time for Safer Payments/fraud team to investigate.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Functionality already exists

DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions higher than 11 (i.e.12,13)

According to the IBM, the following document is available online in regards to DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions, it only has until SLES Version 11: http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compa...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Display custom attribute with titles for Value and Description

Display custom attribute with titles for Value and Description. Without titles, it is hard for users to figure out which is value and which is description of the value.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

IPM FP12, Using encrypted DB password means DB maintenance scripts cannot be automated

Ref - PMR TS004780329. Raising RFE as suggested by Support team. In DB.XML, we use the db_password_encrypted option, this is for security compliance reasons, and cannot be avoided. Since we implemented this, certain DB maintenance scripts now ask ...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

NLU PT-BR model

The NLU Service has wrong (and very) misinterpreted feelings for some very trivial phrases, following some recent examples of phrases that it returns "0". • Pelo bom atendimento da Loja e pela qualidade dos carros. • Carros muito confiáveis, si...
over 3 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration