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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable all the method types of Rest APIs instead of limiting the usage to PUT.

Currently in Nordea, we are looking for options where our consumers can directly interact with MDM services through rest apis instead of an intermediate service which eventually increase performance and save the effort for managing multiple compon...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

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

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

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