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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration
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Specify OWNER for External Stored Procedures

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We use a CI/CD pipeline to create external stored procedures in all test environments and production. The pipeline use a single userID to create all objects, a user with as low privileges as possible and absolutely not SYSADM. When creating plans,...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Have launchTemplateId/Instance template for LSF Google Resource Connector work the same as if launching from Google cli/portal

Google LSF Resource Connector has the option to launch VMs based off Instance Template feature of GCP thru the launchTemplateId field in googleprov_templates.json. There is additional flexibility in being able to override settings defined in the I...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

The dashboard does not work while Puppet is turned on

The feature of uploading Excel data and using it as a data source in data module is very useful. We tried to use this Excel data to generate dashboard. Unfortunately, we always encounter errors of displaying the data on the dashboard. After a revi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Format Aggregation calculation as a Parent

(See attached file to view screenshots) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW allows users to create calculations that aggregates several members (or the content of a subset). However, the created...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Set standard service level agreements (SLA) in WKC workflows

Change Request workflow should activate a standard SLA for assignments and escalations based on the request type. User Story As a WKC Admin, when I create a workflow, I want to be able to assign an SLA to the template via the UI based on how the t...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Change Identity Insight to honor Liberty authentication and authorization configuration

We are unable to use Identity Insight v9, iFix006 as obtained from IBM without patching SOAPTransformerServlet and RESTTransformerServlet. This is because iFix006 implements enhanced security which broke our local app that makes SOAP calls to the ...
over 3 years ago in Identity Insight 1 Future consideration