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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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Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

"Ghost" record downstream mitigation via CP4D filter

In our downstream systems, any ghost record that is generated in CP4D (currently being tackled by IBM engineering) is also part of the payloads sent out via ds jobs. This is causing technical issues in connected systems that are flattening the pay...
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Separating configuration from MDM/MDMUI/BPM containers

While migrating from one DC to another DC with IP change and other configuration changes, we need to go for fresh installation which should not be the case in containerized environment.
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 2 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow specification of VolumeType when provisioning a new EMR cluster through Transformer

When the Cluster Manager Type is set to EMR and Define Cluster Start Option is set to Provision New Cluster, there should be an option to set the VolumeType for EBS storage. Since this is possible when actually creating an EMR cluster and attachin...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

CPD Cognos Analytics does not allow report ‘save to file’ in external managed NFS.

Customer WestPac requires an emergency fix to CPD Cognos Analytics service. The Cognos feature that Westpac is requesting is under investigation by the Cognos dev team. The feature is already available in our traditional Cognos deployment but not ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Add timestampPrecisionReporting option to resultset.getDBTimestamp and resultset.getTimestamp to get trailing 6 number places after the decimal as has been done with resultset.getString

In IDz DB2 for z/OS Connections, we return the result of 3 methods to show the timestamp in our tables.Two of the three entries lack the last zero.With the timestamp type data in the presentation of the result of the execution of a db2 query if a ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

SST Kafka Producer "Send Message Keys" key field to be sent as json format

Product - StreamSets Transformer for SparkVersion - 5.6.1 Customer is looking to send the Kafka Producer "Send Message Keys" key field to be sent as json format. They are using Transformer and want to pass Key Field in Kafka destination. Ideally i...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted