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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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Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the TO_DATE scalar function for source data in week dependant format data

With the TO_CHAR scalar function i can convert a "normal" date format to a week dependant format.e.g. select to_char('30.03.2017', 'IYYY.IW.ID') from sysibm.sysdummy1 delivers 2017.13.4; fourth isoday (thursday) in week 13 of year 2017. The invers...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DataStage Oracle Connector Stage to receive responses from PL/SQL

Can we enhance DataStage Oracle Connector stage to be able to receive response from PL/SQL and pass the value to an output link so next stage can use the values?
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Update embeded websphere server for CORS support

The cross origin resource sharing (CORS) cannot be enable in the WebSphere 8.5.5.8 server embedded in Cognos 11. Based on WebSphere site, the CORS are supported on WebSphere version 8.5.5.9.In Cognos 10, it was possible to configure the CORS heade...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TDF should support SSL/TLS LDAP. (Also known as LDAPS.)

Case: TS014229415 Opened September 2023. Closed as a future requirement (working as designed).
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show item labels for tree map visualization.

To create consistency between visualization chart properties it would make sense to include the same options in a tree map (similar to a pie/bar chart properties) i.e. to include the ability to toggle on and off show value labels. In addition, it ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix Purescale

Add DB2 Purescale to Informix. This would allow high speed replication via Roce.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration