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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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UI enhancement: adding Restart-options for CDC subscriptions without data

When the subscriptions failed, it always need customer to restart it manually. in banking environment there are too many subscriptions need to monitor and manage, even coding to management is also hard work, and it will impact real-time efficiency...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Create options to disable hierarchy feature

Right now in PA, hierarchy option is enabled by default whether you want to use it or not. We want to have a way to enable/disable it through config parameter, so that people can use it rightly. Please make this option as false by default and peop...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF workflow artifacts for Db2 UPDATE and ACTIVATE process

IBM z/OSMF workflows are being improved to be used for Db2 installation and migration. It would be nice if we have also the artifacts for the other CLIST processes: UPDATE and ACTIVATE. The UPDATE process is what we use the most.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Re-order Dimensions on a Cube via a Turbo Integrator Function

We have systemised approaches to building cubes and dimensions within Planning Analytics, this includes automatically building cubes from source systems and adding dimensions to cube after they have been built. Unfortunately when rebuilding these ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Do not refresh the sheet when changing SUBNM with data changed

<As is> If we would like to update inputting data we input them at Web sheet, then click the refresh button. But we can also update by changing search criteria after inputting. The problem is that it easy to imagine that user can change sea...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Client’s Dprop application p...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted