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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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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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Enable Sendmail in Cloud

Request that SENDMAIL be enabled by default for use in the Cloud for Planning Analytics
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

CDC Db2 Should Issue More Warnings on Staging Store filling Up 80% 85% 90% 100%

Ref TS004371870 We have a warning message at CHC1532W at 90% and one CHC1524E at 100%. We would like one earlier for our planning and reaction purposes. Our issues have been with rogue transactions that are doing mass updating, deleting etc.
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2z Sequencing support in IDAA for surrogate keys

In many data transformation flows, surrogate keys are required for dimension tables for example. One common technique for generating surrogate values is to use database sequences, particularly when utilizing SQL-based transformations. Currently se...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup/Restore Functionality of PAW assets

Improve backup and restore in PAW, more flexible backup and restore: provide functionality to backup and restore personal folders/books for admins backup and restore via Life Cycle Management (move content to another location?)
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Tool to check SSL certificate connectivity with KEYSECURE

Need some way to check if provided SSL certificate for secured connection to KEYSECURE is indeed valid before putting it in kmip cfg. This reduces the risk of any issues with SSL certificate on actual implementation day on production system.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

facility to hide 'send report by email' option

Please provide facility to hide the 'send report by email' option, so that users will not be able to select this.(this facility was there in Cognos 10). The schedule reports with 'email' option selected goes to waiting state and never get executed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MT to MX Mappers to Support Additional ISO Payment Schemes

The existing MT to MX translation correctly translates MT to CBPR+ messages. However, not all ISO schemes have the same fields as CBPR+. The existing MT to MX implementation will not create a syntactically correct Target2 message. The following pa...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Single Sign-On from SPSS Modeler to IBM Cognos

Currently, when using the IBM Cognos BI node it is necessary to provide Cognos gateway URI, namespace, user name and password to login to the Cognos environment. This is a manual logon process. There are other Non-Browser/SDK based clients (e.g. F...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration