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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add SCIM support for CA

SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_for_Cross-domain_Identity_Management) An integ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improved clarity of NFS mount points in DataStage

When configuring NFS mount points in datastage, it is not possible to define a name for the mount pointFor example: if I mount /mnts/tata/dev, in the asset "asset browser" when creating the stream. If I choose “DataStage persistent volume”, I'll s...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES should have a column containing the full text of the Db2 utility

SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES should have a column containing the full text of the Db2 utility that was executed. This allows the DBAs or sysprogs to see exactly what was executed for problem and other analysis. For example if someone has run a utility that...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

IKC workflow mail notifications fine-tuning

If user is receiving lots of notifications from workflows, it would be good to have a bit more convenient e-mail content. Now when the e-mail notifications are created, the subject line basically says "Notification: Your task is completed" or some...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Add dbschema to Informix CSDK

Developers have the Informix Client SDK installed on their workstations / application development machines. There is the need to be able to dump the Informix databases schemas definitions, but the SDK does not provide any such tool. To work around...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Need a script which can compare the configurations of all the services (watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate and watsonx.data) across our different clusters.

Need a script which can compare the configurations of all the services (watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate and watsonx.data) across our different clusters.
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Character encoding issue when importing agents from ADK

When exporting agent for modification using the ADK, no issues occur concerning the character encoding, for example, some character like é/à/è are correctly kept as is during the export. However, when importing the agents back into orchestrate wit...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Is a defect