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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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DataStage server jobs are failing due to no ODBC connector support to load data into Snowflake database

Currently, we have several DataStage server jobs designed to solve a specific problem and running fine to extract data sourcing from flat files & SQL servers and targeting to Netezza database. Now we are in the process of migrating the on-prem...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

dbimport support for tenant databases

The database which is exported by dbexport is not possible to import as tenant database by dbimport. In the current implementation, the tenant database should be created by SQL Admin API first. dbimport is by default creating the new database as t...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Caching TM1 Server authentication with TM1 nodes

To limit resource consumption, network traffic and requests of the TM1 server, Modeler should cache the authentication portion of the TM1 Server communication for reuse during the current session. Authentication should happen once per 'session' ra...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

DataStage roles (allow migration but not editing or creation of jobs)

We need a new role that allows for migration of jobs but does not allow for the creation and editing of jobs. This is for separation of duties.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

Register Windows service without starting it

Would like an option in Cognos Configuration to register the service without starting it (for example having a option available by right-clicking on the IBM Cognos object in the explorer). This would allow the user to then go and modify the servic...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MDM CE Watson Search results found words highlighting

We would to highlight found string in Watson Search results of MDM CE.For example we search for "ap", then in the search results we see items that have "application" and "apartment".We would like this "ap" in each found word to be highlighted.
over 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Automated Axis title with multiple metrics in Dashboard

In the current dashboard, the product automatically rendering the text "Values" whenever we are trying to use the multiple metrics. IS there any way we can customize it to change to meaningful verbiage
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add string data fileds TM1 cube support to Cognos BI

Cognos TM1 cube as a Cognos BI data source is supporting two types of data: numbers and strings. Number data fields works fine in Cognos BI, but there is no support for string data types. Please add string data types support in Cognos BI.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration