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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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IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

IGC/WKC and Erwin version 2020 compatibility

We are trying to upgrade our Erwin software to version 2020, but IGC/WKC does not support Erwin version 2020 yet. That is keep Erwin N-1 (Max one version behind the current version) compliant. Erwin is soon releasing 2021 version as well.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

The Hadoop name node GetFile Operation slowing down the job performance

While the dataset is getting generated, the segmented files with zero byte gets created first then the process start filling the data on the segmented files sequentially. If there isn’t enough volume to fill all the 8 segments ( CSDP uses 8 segmen...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Chrome and Edge Compatibility for Inspector

Our organization would like to sunset Internet Explorer and move to Chrome or Edge.
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

Maintain/display target/apply replication I/O statistics for each Resource Map of a Subscription

It is necessary at times to confirm how many adds/updates/deletes have been applied/replicated to a target Resource Map "RM" of a Subscription. The apply process should maintain these replicated I/O statistics on the apply side at the RM level as ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

provide procedure to clean up explain tables based on given criteria and build RI to aid that cleanup

each time a bind is run with explain(yes) rows are written to multiple explain tables but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to delete all those rows in all those tables so that only the rows that correspond to the explains of current, previous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create portal shortcuts to 'Other' Elements

The Analysis Studio package (and other items under the Cognos Analytics 'New->Other' menu option, have been marked for deprecation, but there are still many customers that wish to access this functionality. In previous versions of Cognos, users...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration