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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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DataStage (IIS) kafka connector to connect to RBAC enabled Kafka cluster

BOA has a huge Kafka cluster and as per GIS ( Global Information Security), all new platform need to have RBAC enabled and this being the case, we would want to connect DataStage (IIS) using Kafka connector to connect to the Kafka cluster ( with R...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

dashboard infographic - centred on page

A dashboard created with the infographic template is always left aligned. It pushes the dashboard upto the left hand edge of the browser window. This makes the dashboard look bad, it makes it look like it is wasting a lot of screen estate. Typical...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Safer Payments should support more than one KMIP server defined for each key.

Need Safer Payments to have more than one KMIP server defined for each key for higher availability.
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Safer Payments should activate the key generated on KMIP server instead of manually activating the key on KMIP server.

We have to activate key created on KMIP servers manually each time before we can actually activate master key change. KMIP standard says it has to be managed by application. Need Safer Payments to activate the key before starting the master key ch...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

About the use of Azure storage service from Modeler Client

I was able to browse the text file on OneDrive(*1) over networkdrive from SPSS Modeler Client. Please state in the release notes that file browsing using the WEBDAV(*2) is supported. (*1)Storage service provided by Microsoft (*2)Web-based Distr...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration