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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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Oracle RDS as a source for CDC (to send data to ANY CDC target)

For AWS Oracle RDS, we do not have access for the OS so we dont have access to the redo/archive logs. We need CDC repluication tool be capable to read the Oracle transaction from RDS oracle as a source and replicate, in our case the target will be...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Ability to Edit/Modify PAW Calculations

When creating a custom calculation in PAW or adding a single number into the report ("Add to sheet"), it is not possible to view the logic / query nor to modify it. It would be helpful to be able to view and modify calculations and queries of sing...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Clicking on Save button in reports throws error for users without save permission on report folder

Cognos throws error when user clicks on save button after interacting with report. User doesn't have access to save report in the same folder. Cognos should throw a warning message rather than error.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove all world writable permissions on files and directorys see also 79173

Our Security does not want to see files and directorys which have the world writeable permission set se also fea 79173 PMR is case TS000140222
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Future consideration

Double " delimiter issue with HPU

When unloading from an Imagecopy using HPU, data gets unloaded like this : " 12345"~"SMA "O" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05 while with DSNUTILB, it gets unloaded like this: " 12345"~"SMA ""O"" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05. If you look at 'O' in the company name...
over 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration