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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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Issue with Kafka connector within DataStage.

Current State: When a DataStage job fails while reading from a Kafka connector, the records read from the queue before the runtime failure are marked as "read" and removed from the queue, despite the record not being passed out of the connector an...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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

persist width of Application name column under workload Health on dashboard

There are 30 characters of our application name. The width of applicaiton name under workload health on dashboard is not persist after navigate away and back.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Sorting and Hiding control of Alt Hierarchy roots in PAw

We have many Alt Hierarchies we have created (30+ for some dims) But no all users leverage or need everyone. Some are for TI system processes. We wish to be able to hide (by group security) the Alt Hierarchies that users do not need to see. Also...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Edit in a Datasheet View in UI

We need the ability for end-users to bulk edit records in the system in a datasheet view (where they can copy and paste data from Excel to OpenPages). This should be in the UI for end-users not a Fastmap template. This is different from Grid Vi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 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