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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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Prevent duplicate Virtual Table Names from being created

We have had numerous cases where our users are creating virtual tables with the exact same name as previously created ones causing confusion and data rule failure. The source no longer exists but now we have to go delete old ones. Is there a way t...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Show complete names and pathes of error and output files in the LSF RTM grid console

RTM truncates the names/pathes of error and output files in the grid console which makes the filenames for long pathes unreadable and potentially indistinguishable, i.e. unusable.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

DSC comment support

Currently the DSC only supports /* */ style starting comments. The "normal" -- style causes the SQL to never be cached! This is naturally very bad as loads of JAVA coders start their SQL with a -- comment to internally document the SQL code. This ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Provide a monitoring and alert solution across the publisher and master data connect

Currently it does not appear that there is a monitoring, logging and alert capability on the publisher component and that Instana will be used on master data connect. Could we please get a single platform to monitor the end to end environment? In ...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Future consideration

Allow delta load batch publications from MDM AE to MDC

Allow delta load batch publications from MDM AE to MDC (ie a set of records within a time frame) Currently the publisher allows for only a once off initial take on batch and then the subsequent synchronization is only near real time (or batch in t...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Future consideration

Include Missing objects in the Publisher

The publishers main functionality is to publish the MDM AE data model into the MDC graph DB. It should come with all vanilla MDM AE objects to allow for publication configuration. Nedbank noticed that the below objects are missing in the publisher...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Planned for future release

Autocomplete should be set to “OFF” for all the fields in the application

Issue Identifier : - Security Misconfiguration Observation: -Autocomplete is not set to “OFF” Recommendation : -Credentials will get stored if the Autocomplete is not set to “OFF” Threat: -Autocomplete should be set to “OFF” for all the fields in ...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

User added to DQ project able to modify his/her own Role. Very poorly designed breaking security requirements

The user added to DQ project is able to modify Role assigned to him/her. Only the DQ project owner should be allowed to add users and assign Roles. This is a poor design breaking the security rules. This needs an enhancement to change these roles ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

As per security guidelines Autocomplete is not set to “OFF” in MDM CE product

Observation: -Autocomplete is not set to “OFF” Recommendation : -Credentials will get stored if the Autocomplete is not set to “OFF” Threat: -Autocomplete should be set to “OFF” for all the fields in the application
over 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration