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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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Provide a Docker container solution for IIDR CDC/Remote Data Capture/Db2/IMS/Kafka

Provide a docker container do run IIDR replication on a S90x container to run in a Kubernetes environment
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Data module: Possibility to export it to Excel

I think it can be very useful to have the possibility of a direct export to excel format (or other "standard" formats) of data modules, without necessarily having to create a report or a dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

When dropping table retain OBID for when recreating that same table

Any account that utilizes QREP should want this option of retaining OBID
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance JCC exception message

Within an application, the failure scenarios are being stored in the database, along with the exception messages. This helps in a meaningful report generation, and determination of the cause of the failure. In this particular case, when we try to ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Population of V12 new added Catalog columns during activation of Function level V12R1M50 and avoid it later during executions of ALTER TABLESPACE because of contention of packages.

After you apply the PTF for APAR PI86123, the first ALTER TABLESPACE, populates any null attributes for objects created in function level V12R1M100 or earlier. When the one-time population occurs for an ALTER TABLESPACE statement, Db2 must quiesce...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Add a 'bsub -Gl limit_name' option to separate Fairshare Assignment from the Limit also add a default limit pattern to use if ONE_UG_TREE does not find a matching limit

We have many cases, where we have limits for users, but we also want to want to apply a fairshare group for the job to arrive at a base allocation. Unfortunately, with ONE_UG enabled, if the Fairshare Group does not have a corresponding Limit, not...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration