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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Support Kafka version 2.7 for IIDRCDC Kafka target

IIDRCDC supports Kafka as one of target source. At this time, IIDRCDC currently supports Kafka version 2.4 library to connect to Kafka. This request is to add Kafka version 2.7 and higher level support for IIDRCDC. Reasoning is below. We are looki...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow custom certificates for DB2 exposed by Data Virtualization

Hello, We are trying to connect via PowerBI to the db2 exposed by dv but the connection fails because of the certificates. These certificates are not complete and do not contain any host information. PowerBI cannot use them. The connection without...
over 2 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Refresh MQT access

We have a situation where the application team wants the access to refresh their MQTs, but all the available options give them over entitlements other than just refresh. • Ownership of the materialized query table - gives application team access t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unlocked cells in web

Cells that are locked in form in Excel, are open in web. This is probably due to the fact that the forms are not opened in an Excel environment, but as a web form. This creates a loophole to input data into accounts that should not reported into.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Cognos allow other members from PA cube to be used as members and enable multiple widget connections

I would like to be able to use all dimensions from OLAP source as measures in visualizations. Currently I can only compare members that are in measure dimension in KPI visualization. This makes it so that you cant compare Actual vs Budget or any m...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Page: Add a Checkbox prompt

We have some reports where we are asking users if they want to include some items or not and have to use a value prompt with the values Yes and No. For example, if we provide a report on days, we would ask if they want only the working days with a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable Text on Visualization Titles When Filtered

When two or more widgets are linked in a dashboard, it would be great if the titles on the widgets/visualizations changed with whatever is being filtered. We've found that the only way to achieve anything like this currently is to use something li...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update multiple quick report connection strings

Need a way to quickly update multiple quick report connection stings at once. Update the current utility to allow multi select files, or select a directory (similar to action button migration) OR allow connection strings to be stored in a cell. 1 ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION statement to allow encapsulation of any DDL command

Currently CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION can be used to encapsulate some DDL statements (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_0483.htm) We would like this to be expanded to include other DDL statem...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration