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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Loading Library Visualizations: Please allow us to click more than one per import

From Cognos administration > Library > import. When browsing, we can only import one at a time. shift-click nor ctrl-click are allowed to load more than one visualization at a time.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide more granular database-level privileges than just CONNECT, RESOURCE and DBA

We have a requirement to support a code deployment role where a user, whose job role is not a DBA, can release code into a given database. The type of things they would be doing is:* Creating and dropping procedures, synonyms, triggers, indices an...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Would love to see a containerized version of the CDC Kafka agent made available

A container image of the CDC Kafka agent that I could deploy would be so handy.
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

View and subset counter

We would like to add the functionality to count how many times a view and a subset is used/opened. Users are creating a lot of different subsets and views and it can sometimes be difficult to navigate in the menus due to this. At the moment it's h...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HAA$UREO - Max Tape Vols/DASD Units should be created on HAA$DSD as separate fields

Seems having Max Tape Vols/DASD Units is dangerous. These should be separated into two different entry fields. VOLCNT is tape volumes, UNCNT is units. Also these should not be on a general panel, HAA$UREO. This should be on HAA$DSD. The fields rea...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Extension Items languaje localization

It would be very useful to gain the option to localize the names of the extesions items, such of dashbords/reports/.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC Replicating DATA of VIEW from MAINFRAME to DISTRIBUTED

I have a requirement where we want to replicate data of a view to AIX side. I am attaching VIEW DDL is it possible with the help of CDC to achieve replication to AIX table View on mianframe is as follows CREATE VIEW PPSDB01.EXPR_PAL_ADDR AS SELECT...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration