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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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Add option "Clean-up capture agent catalog" to accelerator v7 like it was in v5

In V7, there is not such a feature available for now. The only option toclean up capture agent would be manual cleanup with CDC tool via supportteam, but it would only happen if the system has really become slow and there was a high amount of tabl...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formatting on Planning Analytics not applied as default format in Cognos Analytics.

Problem statement: A solution was created by a US team in Planning Analytics with a set of percentages, the data was then vizualised in Cognos Analytics. We have user all over the world, and users have set the content language to their local langa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a workaround to not use /tmp on Linux/Unix with EXEC permission

To avoid bug referenced PH08176 CANNOT UPLOAD CSV OR XLS WHEN /TMP IS MOUNTED AS NON-EXEC the /tmp directory must have EXEC permission (Linux/Unix)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Use IDMS available JDBC driver to allow QMF connect and access/update data in IDMS using SQL through SQL server feature of IDMS (v19)

Using IDMS JDBC driver and IDMS SQL server feature (instead of QMF data services) to access IDMS data has the following advantages: 1- Much easier and straight forward setup. 2- No additional components (QMF data services) are required to run on z...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0

Issue with StringToNumber function depending on locale

When the function StringToNumber is used, the TM1 process uses the client's locale/language to set the decimal and thousand separators when the client creates a process. After a process is created the decimal and thousand separators will not chang...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JSON and JSONB maximum size on NPS

Message systems like Kafka are often used as an enterprise nervous system for data. A datawarehouse like Netezza Performance Server needs to be able to consume this data for analysis and reporting. Most organizations prefer the loading of their da...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Informix documentation for oncheck command should be crystal clear

Informix documentation for oncheck command does not explain clearly that this command should be run only during a maintenance window or during an off-hours period because the oncheck utility places a shared lock on system catalog tables when the d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration