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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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Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

kafka connector should be able to read only committed messages

Our Kafka Producer writes messages on a Kafka topic acting transactionally and it could rollback the transaction when certain events occur. As of now, the behaviour of the Kafka connector is to read also uncommitted messages (see case TS003289786)...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Out of balance amount for the transaction should show in the out of balance column on each item

Out of balance amount only shows on the 1st credit in the transaction. For transactions that are larger than can fit on the screen at one time, the operator is unable to see if / how much the transaction is still out of balance after changing an i...

one to many job mapping

-- the job submission user needs be one particular user, -- the job execution user should be mapped to various users. In order for LSF to support such use case, an enhancement is to add 1) a new bsub option to specify the job execution user 2) a n...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 5 Delivered

Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

DataStage Google Big Query Connector to use encrypted credential json file

Macy's is working on moving all our DataWare house to Google BQ. Currently, we have BQ connector on DataStage 11.7.1, but we can only connect to BQ using a flat pure json credential file. According to the policy of our company, flat file cannot be...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Writing data to DV table on Cloud Pak for Data

In CP4D 2.5, we cannot export data to DV table from Modeler flow and Notebook. Please add features that can do that. In our customer's organization, we have to have the data-scientist-role users use only limited data, and are planning to use Dat...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler 5 Delivered

Inbound Transmission Hierarchy Screen "Sticky Tab" option to leave on rear until operator chooses otherwise if an operator selects rear image in the details then starts moving from item to item in Transmission Hierarchy

When a TCR operator needs to see validation on the back of the check to find amount error on Inbound Transmission Hierarchy screen: select rear image and start moving from item to item usually for a batch of cashed checks 10 to 30 items in a ro...

Ellipses in the Team Content provides a way to 'Create report'

Consumer/user do not have capability to create/delete report. However in the Team Content, by clicking on the ellipses located next to the folder/package, user can see ‘Create report’. A better approach would be to hide the ellipses altogether.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Defraging exclusive host

Owned slots are reclaimed even when there is task running on the host. From the support case above, it turned out a designed feature, to defragment a partially host so others can borrow. Some of our apps are critical with relatively long running t...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Delivered