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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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Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make dialogs smart - prepopulate options to be selected with possiblity to overwrite manually

Any dialog with pre-populated option-select-boxes should enable the user to select predefined values and still give the possibility to manually enter, change or overwrite the value in case new CSS or HTML rules are released from W3C.In this case t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parallel Framework Installs

There is no alternate way of running multiple version of Framework manager on the same server.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support both JSON, YAML payloads in addition to the current XML payload when using the REST API

We currently have a projects where users will be submitting and controlling workload through Application Center. The customer is asking that they be allowed to continue to use JSON payload instead of XML payload for job submission and control.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Update the Zendesk connection

The connection to Zendesk through web chat today is mostly compatible only to the older Chat feature of Zendesk. Zendesk now has this Agent Workspace which combines the chat feature with the ticket system. The older chat feature will also not be u...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Adding Governance Rules to Business Terms

Currently the way to assign a governance rule to a business term is to go into the Governance Rule view, go to Related artifacts, go to Business Terms and select the appropriate Business Term. In IGC, one could assign the governance rule from the ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

OpenPages - Audit Sampling Engine

OpenPages IAM should provide a medium to gather population from core banking and apply sampling techniques and reverse sampling techniques to generate sample sets for Financial Audit purposes. IIA recommended sampling techniques should be configur...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Not under consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the need to STEPLIB SAVZLOAD

Currently the SAVZLOAD dataset is must be STEPLIB'd in: Our DVM procedures WLM environments where UDTF's are being used DSCLient jobs Internal issuance processing We are unable to add SAVZLOAD to LINKLIST since it is automatically added to LLA whi...
about 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration