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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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Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 3

Suppress Zero on MDX Calculated Members referencing other cubes

Also raised in the community blog. "Please fix zero suppression issue when manually coding the MDX view definition. Currently, if the MDX view uses references to other cubes (e.g. to retrieve Current Month, Current Year, or other control inform...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Request ability to add Classification banner

Many Federal customers require the ability follow Federal Classification guidance in support of Classified deployments. In closed/classified environments, web services are required to denote the highest possible classification on an appropriately-...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Needs more information

Support for SAP HANA in Db2 Replication Service

A large Federal customer has a requirement to replicate, in near real-time, SAP HANA to Db2/Db2Wh. Our documentation page for the Data Replication Service shows that CP4D can support Db2 Warehouse as a target, but that SAP HANA is currently not su...
5 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Consumer being truncated when using egosh CLI

Egosh is quicker than the REST API to match consumers back to the spark instance groups. However, the consumer is truncated if the value is greater than 40 characters, which is not useful. This occurs on the following commands: egosh user roles4us...
5 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

SQL Data Insights - no option to weight attributes for AI_COMMONALITY

For outlier detection weighting single attributes (columns) is key, since attributes in a given dataset negatively affect the outcome of AI_COMMONALITY as tests shown
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

More detail information at the different steps of a job

A report has been inserted 5 times in a job. Each report has different parameter values or output formats. The differences are not visible in the step overview. You have to check the step options for each step. Currently the step overview shows ty...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Preview Support for Hadoop and Hive with Kerberos

Customer has Hadoop / Hive with Kerberos/Ranger enabled and wants to run MDE and publish the results to a catalog. Ford connected to Hive and ran MDE and published to a catalog succsessfully. However, when Ford tries to preview data in the catalog...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release