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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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Supporting Oracle XA Transactions without DTP

As per IDR 11.4, Oracle XA transactions are only supported if DTP is activated in the oracle Database.In our Oracle Exadata environment, XA transactions are mandatory, but we cannot allow DTP being activated, because it has important consequences ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log out screen for SSO implementation

IBM OpenPages ver. 9.0.0. has default session log out page with available User ID and Password fields (see picture no 1). This is ok however for implementations using SSO standard security requirement forbid such setting as a potential vulnerabili...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

High availability for IMS CDC in a SYSPLEX environment

We are currently implementing CDC for IMS in our Production environment. This consists of 2 IMS v15.2 systems running on 2 different LPAR's, in a SYSPLEX. The OS on both are currently z/OS 2.3. CDC for IMS runs on 1 LPAR, replicating the LOGS o...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Input Japanese language in the search bar on the catalog

>Idea Details: Normally, when Japanese people input "Kanji", input "Hiragana" at first with not confirmed status, after that convert it to "Kanji" using SPACE key. At last press ENTER key, the conversion is confirmed. <Steps> 1. in...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Is a defect

Allow users to change their language in profile

Our application is used by people from different countries. At the moment the only option of changing the language in CP4D is to change the default one in the browser. Having the option either on main page or profile would be a lot easier.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Planned for future release

Cognos to force users to open a specific browser

We are on C 11.0.13 Fix Pack 1 in Production Environment. This is regarding browsers. Since Cognos URL have issues with Edge, and lots of our client machines are set to Edge as default browser's and when they receive E-mails with report links etc,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration