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


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Support Oracle 21c as source, including support for TDE

We are an OEM partner of IBM, for IIDR. A prospect is interested in the combined solution. They currently run with Oracle 19c, and have plans to upgrade their Oracle to 21c by June 2022. They run with TDE on their Oracle.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add ability to disable temp table auditing

Informix row level auditing masks (INRW, DLRW and UPRW) can be used to audit DML operations on application tables. During batch jobs (that use temporary tables extensively) it was noted that Informix is auditing temporary tables unnecessary causin...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Export to CSV by Validation Tab Results not End User Friendly

Rich Search Result Report Script does not have an api to get the selected products , the function arguments only have an api which returns all the items which are in multi edit. We want the api which gives the list of selected items as , similar t...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 3 Future consideration

Encryption utility for RSP files

Goal: create RSP (response) file to install Db2 LUW on multiple systems, but allow for customization of the password for the instance owner without having to go through the GUI installer for each, and avoid displaying the password in plain text in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Data traffic encryption

IBM Netezza Performance Server does not support data traffic encryption when Kerberos authentication is enabled. All data is sent in open text despite kerberos having the functionality to encrypt data transfer. This is a huge security gap that sho...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Unify the CASE package version number with CP4D refresh version number

We have too many version number in CP4D and its services. For example, CASE package version, Operator version, Operand version and Service version. Operator and operand versions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-ope...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

WKC data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters

As a Data Steward, I would like to:1. From the data profiling/quality GUI filter by any or all filters such as: source system, environment, database, schema, table(s), column(s), data domain(s), subject area(s), criticality rating and other availa...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Support hierarchies in drill through functionality

The TI Function ReturnViewHandle utilized in that feature does not support MDX views which were the only way to include alternate hierarchies. So it is not possible to create drill through processes which respect alternate hierarchies. We need thi...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration