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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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A visual indicator on reports for fields with filters.

Users would benefit from having a visual indicator on the header column title that makes it easier for users to select a filter to use on that column.
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for additional Flow Models using OpenManta Extensions in Informatica EDC exports

Informatica EDC exports for OpenManta Extension connections only supports Custom ETL and Custom Reports flow models. This becomes an issue if the customer is modelling file-based integrations on the customer's internal systems using OpenManta Exte...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request. Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also common...
10 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Multiple User Administrators for Controller Web

It is currently only possible for a single administrator (ADM) to link IBM ID's to Controller users. In the interest of business continuity and to avoid credentials sharing, it would be really beneficial if additional user administrators could be ...
10 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Ice berg table format and connector for datastage Infosphere Information server:Generic- 11.7.4.1

Hello Team, We have datastage 11.7.1.4 implemeted on premises on bare metal server. We have database on DB2 DPF IIAS 2C2S in RDBMS. Customer is planning to migrate DB2 RDBMS data to Iceberg table format via datastage to private cloud. If we can ha...
10 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

watsonx.data UI is too slow (both SW and Saas)

When accessing watsonx.data UI, particularly loading schemas and tables in Data Manager, it is expressed by many users (including clients), the response from the UI is awfully slow (to display the right information). This is not the case if connec...
28 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Enable larger limit or 'more' functionality for code search within modeling workbench

When searching for a specific string in processes we are looking to verify that all results will be shown or enabled in PAW, for example we use a common set of code within all of our processes. The current limitation does not enable us to see that...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow TI function Synchronized() to return immediately in case of conflict

In our application for some (complex) operations, the user asking for it has to be sure that another user is not performing the same operation on the same perimeter. For example when user validates his forecast for BUDGET 2025 for Business Unit ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add retry logic for z agent on the source side

Today the IDR agent for DB2 on z only use retry logic for the target side. The request is to add retry logic to the source side. For example, a table is defined as a child in RI relationship. when you load the child table: 1. it goes into CHKP sta...
11 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted