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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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Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

gzip support with filter option on sequential file stage when using multiple files option

Our use case is that we need to split data into multiple files by "x" key, and as the data is huge (MB to GBs) we want to also have the files compressed while being written to. The option works when just writing the data into a single file.
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Provide support for OAuth 2.0 authentication

In order to support secure integration with OpenPages APIs, please provide support for OAuth 2.0 authentication, which is an industry standard authentication protocol.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Need ability to get an entry in audit db when report is failed to send an emails

Hi, we have logging enabled to both file and database configured. we deployed the Audit database and successfully logging to that database. If a report is to be emailed to a user and that email fails, we do not get that entry in the Audit database...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Security 1 Not under consideration

Make DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON the default

DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING is of great benefit for performance and scalability since it was introduced in v8. It's now the default in pureScale and BLU environments, so why can't we make it the default all around?
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Add Runstats Check functionality for DB2 LUW objects (similar to Reorgchk) to determine if a table really needs runstats or not

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - For data server connections and uploaded files, turn off/on cleansing of table and column labels

This is how it works today: For data server connections and uploaded files, the table and column labels are cleaned up in English and some other languages in the following way: For single files, the file extension, such as .xls or .csv, is remove...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration