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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Hive Connector with a Kerberos authentication

We need an option to connect to a Hive using Kerberos authentication. Previously the IBM offering team offered us to use a "Hive via Execution Engine for Hadoop" connector from IBM but it doesn't fully suit our need and here is why: this "Hive via...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Save the Random Effects of Mixed/Multilevel Models

Mixed/multilevel models are used to analyze hierarchical data (e.g., repeated-measures data, “nested” data such as when data is collected from individuals working in teams). Mixed models are able to disentangle variance that occurs among the l...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Delivered

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down.

Scheduled tasks to have optional timezone drop down. Currently timezone is where ever QMF EE is deployed on. For example: QMF EE web app is deployed on servers that is on EST. it will run task on EST regardless of timezone you think you are runnin...
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support for API Keys for REST and SDK

We are in the process of moving to CA in the cloud and we switched authentication provider from AD to Okta. This causes a problem because Cognos requires a setting change in Okta called password grant to allow a user to authenticate using REST or ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Edit pencil size and placement is different between data cells and a single cell widget

I find that the placement of the blue pencil icon to edit a value/comment in a single cell widget is not ideal and different compared to an exploration data cell. In a data cell the edit pencil can be found to the right center position, whereas th...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Add capability to run TEST with APREUSE(WARN) added to the REBIND

ADP is rebinding packages with APREUSE(WARN). This attempts to use the same access path for each SQL statement. Since SQL/PA TEST is not running with this, the product will produce more changes which is not true when APREUSE(WARN) is used.
over 2 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Added new column/field into source file(.xls) then uploaded into CA but changes not retrieving in Data module

Created Data Module by using excel files. Added new column/field into source files(.xls) then uploaded into cognos analytics but changes not retrieving into Data module. We need this functionality to avoid recreate Data module because we receive f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Datastage Snowflake connector add Key Pair Authentication

Requesting enhancement to use key pair authentication with the datastage snowflake connector rather than using the typical username/password authentication. https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/jdbc-configure.html#using-key-pair-authentic...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Priorities of application profiles should be honored by application group when doing recovery

When combining several application profiles with differenct priorities into an application group, these should be taken into account when a recovery plan is executed so that the objects in the highest prioritised profile are reovered first.Today t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered