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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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API or CLI for MDS management

Add support in REST API or CLI for configuration of all aspects of MDS Plans. This includes • Get MDPlan.xml• Add, remove plan (distribution tree)• Add, remove consumer• Add, remove resource group• Change resource group preference• Update OverComm...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Do not store storeIDs for agents.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, We are working on a big datawarehouse project with many teams. For reporting we use Cognos Analytics. Our process to make changes to a report is to copy it to a development folder, make the changes and move the new repor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Blocking Executor/Driver on Shuffle Blocked host

If shuffle service is blocked on certain host, then executor and driver should also be blocked on that host so they are not scheduled on that host and failed.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Planned for future release

HPU usage

I have a question about HPU for Z/OS, and I’m wondering if you can open a ticket with IBM for me? The issue is that we would like to extract character columns such that they are wrapped in quotes, and if there are any quotes in the column, we’d li...
over 3 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

When ProportionSpreadToZeroCells=F allow paste of multiple cells to put zero on a zero consolidation with no error

We have had issues with users entering data on zero rollups and the data being evenly spread to every child, even in intersections that do not make sense. So we were excited when we found out about "ProportionSpreadToZeroCells". It fixed the issue...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - PAX exploration footnotes

We want to have an established footnote-like disclaimer on an exploration that is generated via PAX by any user. Could you please let us know if there is a way to have this footnote-like disclaimer automatically generated for each user when openin...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Messages not getting added to Kafka EntityId topic through custom services(for custom objects)

To enhance the messaging capability, we tried enabling the kafka functionality of IBM MDM. Steps mentioned in the IBM knowledge center - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWSR9_11.6.0/com.ibm.swg.im.mdmhs.kafka.export.doc/topics/kafka_c...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 8 Not under consideration

Rule name instead of Rule Set Name in Rule Executable Name column

We would like to create process where business will have some reports based on IA output tables. We found that for RuleSet we have got RuleSet name instead of Rule Name in RuleSet Executable column.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration