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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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Q Capture/Db2 LUW: Replicate DROP COLUMN-operations

If the source table of an active subscription is altered by a DROP COLUMN operation, there is high risk of continuous data corruption on that table due to incorrect reading of Db2's transaction log entries from that time on. The current workaround...

Allow Signing of Any Outbound Message with an Local Authenication (LAU) Key

Payment message security and integrity is important and network participation rules continue to involve and add stricter enforcement rules deeper into a bank's processing systems. FTM solutions are a critical step in processing payment messages an...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Folder and Report Permissions interface is difficult to use

Cognos 11 Folder/Report permissions interface is very hard to use. Cognos 10.2.2 Folder/Report permissions interface is much better than Cognos 11. We can see all the user groups at one time when viewing permissions tab. It's also very easy and ef...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAF plan name new feature

There are applications that have hardcoded the plan name in their programs using CAF. In some cases, it is wide spread that it will take a lot of work coding and testing due to program change. To avoid the cost of coding and testing, can there be ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rename Foreign Key

Up to now a RENAME FOREIGN KEY is only possible by dropping and re-creating it, thus asking for a CHECK UTILITY to be run.The enhancement of the ALTER to a RENAME would make those actions superfluous and would be much faster.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Remote DB2 connections via Universal Diver T4 not well balanced.

Sysplex workload balancing does not guarantee that executions are distributed among the available systems. It depends on the capacity of the systems (WLM choose systems with more CPs/ZIIPs), performance index of enclaves, and DB2 system health (fr...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

FAP Client notifications when Data mart goes down due to an error.

Real life example, date mart stops working at 18:00. The next day you check the data and notice that they don't match. The cause turns out to be that Fap Cline has stopped working. It would be very helpful to add notifications when Data Mart goes ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Auto Removal of old users from PA Security cubes (TM1 models)

We manage our CA and PA security through CA Security groups. Users are often removed from our CA security groups, which we have added to PA models. In cases where a user is removed from all security groups or no longer exists in CA, they do not au...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration