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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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Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support Oracle Dataguard for InfoSphere DataStage

For HA Database Oracle Dataguard is used in Airbus. DataStage shall support Oracle Dataguard for source, target databases and the meta repository
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Transfer G/L journals data from TM1 to Controller

Request to push data from an external application (e.g. Cognos TM1 10.1) into Cognos Controller 10.1, in form of General Ledger journal entries (which means journal types are specified). Currently there is only "REPO" type data push functionality ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Min & Max Values for Axis on Visualizations Disappeared for Active Reports in Cognos 11.1

Since migrating to Congos 11.1, we are noticing that the ability to set minimum and maximum values for an axis on visualizations is no longer an option after migrating to Cognos 11.1. Would like to see this option available again.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Include multiplier operator on filter

The multiplier operator only works on the query paramter. -https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-query-operators#multiplier It would be useful if it could be used on the filter paramter or at least specify in the documentation that ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Functionality already exists

Web Drill down details at Account level to excel for Comments at Inter Co level

Comments are available under Field 6 for counter company when clicked on ‘Open drill-down’. However, when this data is exported to excel, then these comments do not appear in excel download. Comments updated have to be referred while reviewing the...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Make table active on iSeries without data loss

When the user changes the status of a table to active with Mark Table Capture Point in GUI, mark capture point in chcclp or System i command SETMIRSTS (*ACTV), a marker is posted to the journal and all unreplicated transactions between the end poi...
about 8 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration