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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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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.

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Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

watsonx.ai SaaS HIPAA ready

We have a large healthcare client that requires HIPAA-ready services due to the nature of the use case: Medical Document Classification using watsonx.ai and Discovery SaaS. This is a deployment progression blocker issue, equating to ~$500k in reve...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 2

Notification of timeouts via popup or connection indicator in PAx

Would like a more visual indication that you've been timed out from your connection in PAx as it's not easy to tell if you been disconnected. Perhaps a status indicator for when you are connected or disconnected in the menu, or at least a popup no...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Virtual Table Name should be longer than 50 characters.

When creating Virtual tables we decided as standard to maintain the default Target Virtual Table Name that is build as follow: ConncectionName_Schema_Tablename In some cases this turns out to be longer than 50 chars. and when trying to create it s...
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Connection between widget and filter area filters

I would like to specify connection between each filter and each widget. Currently you can't define what widget work with which filter (from filter area). Its all or nothing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQL Data Insights - APIs for model retraining plus all other maintenance tasks available via UI today

Most enterprise customers do not use UIs at all outside of test systems, all production work has to be automated and scripted. SQL Data Insights requires the retraining of a model in case the data in the underlying table or view changed. So retrai...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
5 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
5 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration