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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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Log a message at INFO level at the end of an event switch

The only way to know that you are currently at the end of an event switch is to switch to the logdir and see that the temporary event log files have been removed. It would be nice to have a log message at INFO level that informs the administrator ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support for Custom Transformer (Parallel) Routines in DFD

DataStage Flow Designer in 11.7 does not support custom parallel transformer routines. When attempting to compile a job that uses a custom transformer routine from the DataStage Flow Designer interface, compilation fails. This results in a hard de...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

FTM IP Process Steps Have User Exit Enabling "Routing Ticket" on Per Message Basis

Background The current FTM Immediate Payments products of TCH, SCT and HVP allow a bank to customize the Services called at each workflow step (e.g. PreCheck, PreSubmit, PostAccept, etc). The limitation is the customization is limited to a payment...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

mgt1 monitored only on active node

The system doesn't monitor for problems with interface mgt1 on e1n2 and e1n3 when e1n1 is the active one. This needs to change as those are also important links and system should not failover to a node with broken mgt1 connection as that is the on...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Lack of alerts for mgt1 issues

In CPDS 1.x the DNS availability is provided only through a single link mgt1 connection. This means that when the link goes down the system is unable to send out e-mail notifications about it as it is unable to resolve hostname of the mail server....
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

SSO with Tableau

There is a need for a solution to configuring SSO between Netezza and Tableau. Tableau is not supporting the Kerberos Delegation towards Netezza and there is a need for an alternative way of configurating SSO.
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Some of the user accounts - show up as Unavailable and doesn't point to a specific name/user

Whenever the user left the organization user names get removed from LDAP but not in Catalog automatically and its getting displayed as unavailable without pointing to any user name. Attaching image for your reference.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration