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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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Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Define AVRO namespace by configuration

This enhancement is raised by this support issue https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002WX4YiAAL/define-avro-namespace-configurable?language=en_US In general we like to define the AVRO namespace in the Management Console. The current produ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Manage Data Source Connection Schemas as limited user

To expose a schema as a data server component for Data Modules, the administrator has to modify the connection and apply the schema. When in that screen, the user could also drop the data source or connection. As an OEM provider that sets up solut...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To remove tablespace maintenance restrictions on pureScale

To remove all the restrictions of SQL1419N Reason code = "11" on pureScale. 11 Altering database containers is not supported in a DB2 pureScale environment. As a result, the following clauses are not supported with the ALTER TABLESPACE statement i...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Functionality already exists

istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make encrypted connection to access server with chcclp without reading tls.properties

We have an environment where encrypted communication is mandatory. When users want to execute chcclp scripts on the access server, they need to read the tls.properties file of the access server to find the location of the trust store. But in the t...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

XMETA SQL Query via Connector

My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach. Our prop...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Views display varies per user

We have noticed that some cube views (precisely those that use the }Clients dimension) vary on the display depending on the user. This is because Column sizes are associated with MUNs not position. So we find ourselves with a different refinement ...
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Setup Automatic Alerts when Background Report Execution is Queued Up

when multiple reports are running at the same time as background process, lets say one of the bad report caused most of the reports into pending state. we would like to have a feature that can alert us indicating multiple reports are in pending st...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration