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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.

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Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
6 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
6 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Create an out-of-the-box connector to Microsoft Dynamics

MS Dynamics is an important and prominent data source that clients are looking to crawl with Watson Discovery
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

update integrated packages spark3.4.x, miniconda24.4.x, jupyter7.x

integrated packages are outdated in IBM Spectrum Conductor, need newer pkgs to catch up with compliance and security. current miniconda : 4.8.3latest miniconda : 24.4.0 current spark : 3.3.1latest spark : 3.5.x current jupyter : 6.xlatest jupyter ...
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

CP4D Catalog Search Capability to be improved.

When searching the catalog for a catalog asset, the search functionality does not provide a “narrowed-down” view of the search results. The user has to scroll through pages and pages of results to find exactly what they are looking for. The lower ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Restart HPID service on all nodes after hardware replacement

Make part of the standard practice when replacing hardware to require support to do two tasks: 1) There are no errant or orphaned hpid processes consuming resources on any node. 2) systemctl restart hpid on all nodes to ensure clean instantiation ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted