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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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Provide DDL of assets when analyze phase of automated discovery fails.

When analyze phase of automated discovery fails, providing DDL of assets helps users to understand and/or troubleshoot the issue. For example, a view assets could not be accessed for data anymore when some of its dependency table is not available....
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Data Discovery: add NPS to Connection type box when creating a new connection.

Not possible to add directly a NPS connection to Data Discovery. We have a workaround provided by IBM, first we have to create a NPS connection via Import Metadata.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos BI 10.2.2 Fixpack 7

Third party CAWe need to fix the root problem in which Cognos functionality does not account for SAN attributes.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Docment for integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.3 with Oracle wallet (Oracle 12c)

Instructions to setup integration between Infosphere DataStage 11.3 and Oracle Wallet (Oracle 12c)
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add timestamp on sysmater to know when an open transaction has been created

Add a creation timestamp for each transaction so users can monitor how long a transaction has been open. Maybe like in others sysmaster tables, a column on systrans will be great.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Support SP calls using DVM DRDA

The customer is migrating from Shadow to DVM and found out the hard way that SP calls are not supported under DRDA. Switching all the SP calls to RRS is not acceptable due to overhead and non zIIP eligibility.
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for NFS 4.2 on AIX 7.2

Sparse file support was added in NFSv4.2 and currently AIX supports NFS4.1 which does not have sparse capability. DB2 only supports fast pre-allocation on some file systems. Including Veritas VxFS, JFS2, GPFS, ext4 and xFS. Kindly include the supp...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration