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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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CDC capture enhancement for "catch up" mode.

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. In order to bette...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add summarize members function when dragging member elements from the data element tree into report canvas

In legacy power play for windows client it was possible to select a number of members, press the summarize option in the left hand toolbar and drag the selected members to into the crosstab canvas. The result was, that one calculated member got cr...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Deleting GDPR data from FTM for SWIFT

According to GDPR rules we need to delete sensitive data from DB2 tables for FTM for SWIFT application.Please send me the information in which tables the GDPR sensitive data is stored, so that they can be deleted. And please, exactly the command, ...
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

Allow for a deployment export object to maintain a specific history (ie, 4+current) of deployment archives, or unlimited versions, as part of the definition.

Supplementary to CA-I-4375, it would be ideal if the deployment export definition allowed for the deployment archives to be maintained by the product (ie, maintaining 4 historic archives, plus current, removing the last archive on next successful ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Auto restart of CDC subscription upon a failure on Kafka target

The CDC kafka connector dies whenever a partition leadership changes for a topic. This is an ongoing function of Kafka and could happen during•Rolling broker restarts (to upgrade or update a config value)•A change of controller•Normal cluste...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Empty date prompt

At the moment it is not possible to create a date prompt of the prompt page that has an empty value as default. It shows always the actual date when no default value is set or when the default value is empty.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Define and display tags hierarchically

Problem statement/pain point: In now Tags can be defined only non-hierarchy style.In our usecase, administrator design tags system in the enterprise such as in below.This tags system have hierarchical contents. AI_type-Question and answer, AI_ty...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Set Editor window (in new look) cannot be moved independently

If you need to work with more than one window possibility to move Set Editor would make life much easier.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration