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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add a "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

No Email Notification is sent to the group email when the Pipeline run has been completed wherein individual email notifications are sent.

Notifications(email or in notification area) are not working when groups are assigned to the projects, While configuring SMTP, groups are not allowed to select. No email notifications sent to the group/group users email when the Pipeline run has b...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Uploaded file with frameworkmanager package

Now, when you create an uploaded file and you want to combine it with a framework manager package, you have to create a datamodule. We want to have it directly, a framework manager package with uploaded file without a datamodule.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Add synopsis tables and Columnar Page Map usage to BLU explain plans.

Add synopsis tables and Columnar Page Map usage to BLU explain plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to import metadata without the need to access the data

As a data user, I need the possibility to extract the metadata from different systems without the need to have access to data. This will ensure we are able to have a clear image of the different data available in the systems just by reading the di...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Add a link ordering option to DataStage Sequence Activities

In several DataStage stages there is a link ordering option (e.g. Transformer or Join Stage), this is not the case for DataStage Sequence Activities. If a sequence has multiple output links, then the order of these can only be changed by deattachi...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access controls on users - need audit log for compliance

Visibility is required to track when an user has been deleted, for auditing purposes. E.g. removed as a subscriber to Planning Analytics? This will need to include the date, user and email address.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration