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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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DataStage S3 connector to have the ability to ingest fixed width files

At present the AWS S3 connector in DataStage is only able to import de-limited files. In order to ingest fixed width files a workaround has to be used to extract the data from S3 and place it on a file system first so that DataStage can import it....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Passing Data item value on a line chart

When we have a line chart and have drill through. Cognos passes parameter or the data item which is a part of the graph. The requirement is to pass data item which is not part of the chart. In my requirement, I have a data item (hierarchy) of a di...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

EGO command 'egosh' should support both -json and -o "column1 column2 ..." like other commands

The current egosh command output is formatted in a way that does not make for easy parsing by customers. It would be nice if it follows the LSF convention of providing both a -json output format, and an columnar output format using -o "column1:xx ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 0 Planned for future release

Enabling API to provide backup feasibility on Data Quality Projects and WKC artifacts

Client have a number of Data Quality projects and WKC artifacts. When a situation occus to crate back up or recover from these projects client would like to use cpd-cli tool or the APIs.
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Include Pversion in SMC 7.2.x

Include Pversion in SMC 7.2.x
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Planned for future release

[GUI][Usability] - checked consumer admin users on consumer properties

On the consumer properties view (WEBGUI), there is no way to list the checked user for this consumer only or make the checked user in the beginning. It is so hard to look through over 4000 user lists to get Consumer Admin, Consumer User, etc.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

sec_ego_ext_plugin log rollover

For the sec_ego_ext_plugin.a on Sym7.1.2 (and CwS2.2.0/CwS2.2.1) ego version 3.5/3.6, theere does not seem to be a feature supporting log rollover under $EGO_LOGDIR/ego_ext_plugin_client.log and $EGO_LOGDIR/ego_ext_plugin_server.log? They are beco...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 0 Planned for future release

Server Preference DEJOUNAL_SUBMLOCK to include Group Journal

Server Preference DEJOUNAL_SUBMLOCK to include Group Journal, current it is for company journals only.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Preserve joins with accessing multiple underlying DVMs in a single SQL statement

I have a SQL statement that joins 3 tables from 1 PEER DVM with a single table from a different PEER DVM. Currently DVM is breaking this statement into 4 separate SQL statements before sending them to Db2. A better approach, when possible would be...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Trusted Context should be usable with static SQL

Trusted context or trusted connection is a security feature, which enables customers to differentiate between applications connecting to a database, based on whether they originate from a trusted or from a NON trusted client system.This works pret...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Planned for future release