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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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Data Discovery: add NPS to Connection type box when creating a new connection.

Not possible to add directly a NPS connection to Data Discovery. We have a workaround provided by IBM, first we have to create a NPS connection via Import Metadata.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Support SP calls using DVM DRDA

The customer is migrating from Shadow to DVM and found out the hard way that SP calls are not supported under DRDA. Switching all the SP calls to RRS is not acceptable due to overhead and non zIIP eligibility.
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for NFS 4.2 on AIX 7.2

Sparse file support was added in NFSv4.2 and currently AIX supports NFS4.1 which does not have sparse capability. DB2 only supports fast pre-allocation on some file systems. Including Veritas VxFS, JFS2, GPFS, ext4 and xFS. Kindly include the supp...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Binaries

To allow us to update automatically and no longer manually, we would strongly like to have these fixPacks/binaries in rpm form (both the agents and the access server).
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Restrict "Create Calculation" for specific data Items in Framework Manager.

Idea is to restrict users to create calculatoin for specific data Items. we don't want to remove "Create Calculation" globally for all data items. (By unchecking create calculation from capabilities).
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How to set format for Number and Percent both on the Chart ?

Hi there,We use Loan Outstanding Amount measure which is a direct measure come from Data Base (no calculation). The value displayed incorrect for both case (default and percentage) Please see the attachment "Format on the chart for Number and Perc...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMC Very Slow to Load User Information From LDAP

When using the PMC, loading the user information takes a very long time. We have over 25,000 users in LDAP. When using the PMC to create a new user it takes a very long time to load the user list. When adding or changing Roles for a user, it takes...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration