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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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Allow the passing of non-text attribute values into overwritable text attributes

Non-text attribute values (numeric, timestamps, amounts, etc) are unable to be passed into overwritable inputs or outputs which are defined as text. Would like the ability to pass the output of any attribute into an attribute defined as text.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Allow Session Scheduler to support the queue level Job Starter when the Session Spreads to Multiple Hosts

In testing of Session Scheduler, it works perfectly, on secondary hosts, it does not seem to respect our job starter which will limit our ability to deploy Session Scheduler more broadly. Closing this gap is important.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data Lineage and Impact Analysis - Availability of version control on schema metadata

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to track changes on metadata, so that I can check how a previous version of metadata looked like, so that I can control from my end if important attributes are not lost while the source is being changed (e.g., ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Db2 disconnected System Assessment

At the moment Db2 AI for z/OS needs to be connected to do System Assessment.We've got a couple of Db2 production systems of different customers and our idea is to install Db2 AI for z/OS on one seperated lpar. The main purpose of this installation...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add user group filter for bacct and bhist

To evaluate jobs w.r.t. user groups/fair share groups I would like to have a filter for user groups in bacct and bhist similar to the option -G of bjobs.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

User Preference settings for Case Management set up

Have one control setting for user preferences on how they want Investigation cases to look. It seems I have to set my column and field preferences for each queue. SP should have one control setting for cases.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Additional CDC monitoring feature

hi, As you know Classic CDC for IMS providing basic support. Nowadays it's important to monitor subscriptions' latencies, status or states for IMS side. It is posibble to monitor cdc for DB2 via API but we need same development for IMS. Before thi...
about 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 2 Future consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration