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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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Provide CDC integration with DVM

Provide the ability for DVM to interface with CDC for both VSAM and IMS data sources. Support a mechanism to keep DVM extracted data up to date to meet SLAs related to data currency.
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the db2pd flag -quiesceinfo

The following db2pd flag, -quiesceinfo, only applies to PureScale even though this is not clearly documented. We would like to see this available on all DB2 LUW installations.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Rich text content not available in reports

The long description fields in the ICD can contain formatted content („rich text content“).This content cannot be reported with Cognos.The appropriate cognos tool for this kind of data would be the Rich Text element but these elements support ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Active Directory restrict full search

Users can use search on AD namespace and be able to see all other users from other OUs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Add SSL certs

"Plain text" connections to Informix are only encrypted if using SSL. The manuals and internet only explain "self assigned certification" well enough to implement. To make matters worse the "certs" expire and then you have to wipe everything out, ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Global Pins for Dashboard

Create Global Pins in Dashboardingso they can be shareed with other users. The business purpose would be for our developers to create a dashboard object library that users can just drag in and combine into their dashboards
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auditing administrative authorities in DB2 zOS with RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC

DB2 IFCID361 should be written when an administrative authority is used - Independent of the security exit used. When using the full RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC DB2 IFCID361 is not written/supressed , as RACF grants the access -- but does not give back to ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration