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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Add a message to report orphan threads in DB2

Due to TCPIP abend, there are several orphan threads in DB2 causing contention issues on resources. There is no message to report these orphan threads. Having a report helps us to avoid contention issues sooner by cancelling the underlying orphan ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make the Journal Control Field &JOBUSER which is available on z/OS CDC available for use with Remote CDC

This Journal Control Field is one we currently use in our Audit subscriptions so that we can easily track down a change that may have occurred outside of a 'normal' production process. We are looking to transition to using Remote CDC as the log sc...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Simplify the CDC software upgrade process

Currently, we experience down-time at CDC when we need to perform maintenance on the Linux server or on the CDC agent software. Ideas we propose to increase availability of CDC are:• A replication engine should automatically continue running on a ...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Under review

Exclude books used in Plans and Applications from the Recents list on home page

Possibility for books used in Plans and Applications to be excluded from end users' Recents list in PAW home page (to prevent security and maintenance related issues). One of our customers has a PA environment for which the task workflow and...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Maker/Checker role assignment for Business Term approval

In a business term approval process , when a maker(workflow initiator) add user/user groups as a stewards(approvers) for any business terms ,current UI displays all users without verifying whether those users has reviewer role or higher permission...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Allow the Schema Generator to be able to use Complex Data Types for Parquet and Avro

The schema generator currently is only able to generate basic schema. For example a map with mixed data types is considered complex and will cause an error: { "answers":{ "field1": "somestring", "field2": 123 } } SCHEMA_GEN_0007 - Map '/answer...
6 months ago in StreamSets 0

Add ability to use Custom Templates when creating additional tabs

Users are able to create a template in Planning Analytics Workspace that can be set as the default when creating new books or selected when creating "book from template". This is great, until the user has to add additional tabs. When the user does...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Provide Support for Office 365 with Cognos applications

Request Office 365 be supported as an export target for BI Server reports and Viewer for Cognos for Microsoft Office and Cognos Analysis for Excel.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node needed.

want to use Python (not Python for Spark) for python extension node. pySpark has a quite big overhead. SparkDataFrame is not popular than pandas dataframe.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

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