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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Allow Planning Analytics for Excel to work with Chromium browsers

The current version of PAX uses Internet Explorer 11 as its back-end. This browser is no longer being updated or supported by Microsoft soon. Instead, it is being replaced by the chromium-based Edge browser, now standard on most Windows 10 compute...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Message WareHouse Power Search of SWIFT Messages (MT and MX)

Currently COGNOS is used to query MT and MX messages. For MT there is a free text search, but the same is not made available for MX messages. In addition, general query performance is slow. Note that I have look at other SWIFT products, and they a...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

IBM CDC Truncate Capture Options

A Truncate Operation in source is not getting captured if the target is file system. We need the Truncate Operation to be captured with as Event ID 9505 (Since it is a DDL operation) and the truncated records to appear at the target as "D" records...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Grafana / Prometheus GPU metric in CP4D

It would be nice to have the GPU utilization metrics used in WMLA also introduced to the main monitoring dashboard of core CP4D. This is so that we still have a single monitoring dashboard for all services of CP4D.
over 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Replication Tasks (CDC) should be ZIIP offloadable

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a product which off loads workload from z/OS. All Task used for loading data, replicating updates, managing the IDAA box is new workload and should be cost efficient according to Mainframe. This means, that ev...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Ongoing sync API for Match 360 update should have an option not to update record if nothing change and not to trigger match/entity composition

In our process we do not know what values changed in the customer record during ongoing inbound process. As there are multiple record types generated from a single customer record, all record types get updated, person record type gets updated , ma...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Session Time out Pop up

We need timeout popup as a warning message that session is about to expire. This will help users in saving time and avoid losing any unsaved changes.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration