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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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Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
6 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Dictionary last build date

MR0622114827 GGDB211003
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Use RACF resource to control access to DVM JDBC Gateway Server databases

Currently USERID and PASSWORD info needs to be updated and maintained in the DVM AVZDRATH job in order for DVM users to access different DRDA databases. The AVZDRATH job needs to be updated monthly whenever a user’s password changes or when a user...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced host monitoring

On previous generation MAKO20 system, we were able to monitor the HOST machine resources (CPU, MEMORY, FABRIC, DISK) by using NZ_SYSUTIL_HISTORY table provided out of the box. On new generation of the system (IPS), we can still do it, but the HOST...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

PAx - It should work on MacOS as well

Given the current scenario PAx should be compatible be IOS as well as more and more people are using Maacbook now a days.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Limit Loans to certain User Groups and/or Project tag patterns in Guarantee Pools

We want to enable more loaning of resources, but the various teams are rather territorial. They would loan to some one in either the same user group tree, and/or the same Project by regular expression. Allow Guarantee Pools to support that loan po...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Enable defined limits on sqltrace

We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Standard report to count users by category (as defined in the licenses)

at least Profiles and the objects they use.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 5 Not under consideration