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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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Export MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation

We request to support export of MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation.
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Data Management Console: Ability to upload own Driver / Wrapper and also specify the class of the driver during the definition of connection to a Db2 database

When a connection to a Db2 database is defined in the Data Management Console, the today it’s predefined driver with server, port, database and enabling of SSL. The customer would prefer to have their own authentication to have the ability to uplo...
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Selective decompression of zipped filed

Currently when decompressing/unzipping the zip files in Drive explorer it is not possible to select files to unzip: the whole archive is decompressed. It would be useful to have the option of unzipping a selection of files from the archive.
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

In Cognos log: Change Classification of expected behaviour from Level ERROR to INFO

As of now in the Cognos log files there are a great amount of lines classified as error eventhough it is an expected behaviour. Could you please chnage the classification of these expected behaviours to either info or maybe a new level. This would...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Multiple IMS connection support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can connect to single IMSsubsystem only. Therefore, when multiple IMS subsystems exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each IMS subsystem to access data in all IMS subsystems.If DVM can support conne...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Multiple TCPIP stack support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can support single TCPIP stackonly. Therefore, when multiple TCPIP stacks exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each TCPIP stack to use all network connections.If DVM can support multiple TCPIP stack...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Automatic backup for PAW assets/ Manage PAW snapshots programatically

Currently, the data tier can be backed up by launching .bat scripts. (to create a zip) PAW reports are totally managed in the docker content store and we have no programmatic access to the creation of Snapshots. Snapshots can only be managed throu...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted