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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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Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Access AWS Redshift via VPN

Currently WatsonStuidio has to access AWS Redshift via internet (public network). Requirement is to make this communication secured ( by VPN for example)
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Functionality already exists

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Set standard service level agreements (SLA) in WKC workflows

Change Request workflow should activate a standard SLA for assignments and escalations based on the request type. User Story As a WKC Admin, when I create a workflow, I want to be able to assign an SLA to the template via the UI based on how the t...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Tweak/Relax the validations on the source codes and source names for migrating MDM solution to IBM Virtual MDM with the least impact

Our team is preparing to make all our MDM solutions an IBM Virtual MDM Shop to tap into various functional and operational services catering to our usecases. As a part of which, we are migrating long standing MDM hubs using other competing MDM pro...
about 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Future consideration

Due to constraints of the ReactHelperController we cannot create React helpers in any folder but only in the helper folder

Our first React helper is made up of over 60 javascript files. If all future helpers had to be integrated with this code, it would quickly become unmanageable. Therefore, we request the ReactHelperController be enhanced to allow for more than one ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for JDBC Gateway to Greenplum

We use the JDBC Gateway to communicate outbound from the mainframe to distributed Greenplum. Currently only userid/password is supported. We have had to get an temporary exception in order to implement this. UYserid/passowrd voiolates our company ...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to dsjob command to show status on multiple instance jobs

The following command does not list multiple instance jobs:dsjob -ljobs -status 0/4 EDW If I have a running or queued multiple instance the above command will not list it as running or queued. This seems like a oversite, because the Status command...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration