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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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Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Extend codetables with an extra column providing an alphanumeric functional code

For us it's vital to have functional alphanumeric codes for codetables (language independent, like the id). Currently codetables have an id, name and language code (besides the description, expiry date and last update date) to describe code relate...
almost 8 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication (IIDR for IMS) in case of failing to continue replication, especially due to inconsistency between source and target DBs. (just like "FULLREFRESH" of II...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Min & Max Values for Axis on Visualizations Disappeared for Active Reports in Cognos 11.1

Since migrating to Congos 11.1, we are noticing that the ability to set minimum and maximum values for an axis on visualizations is no longer an option after migrating to Cognos 11.1. Would like to see this option available again.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Include multiplier operator on filter

The multiplier operator only works on the query paramter. -https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-query-operators#multiplier It would be useful if it could be used on the filter paramter or at least specify in the documentation that ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Functionality already exists

Web Drill down details at Account level to excel for Comments at Inter Co level

Comments are available under Field 6 for counter company when clicked on ‘Open drill-down’. However, when this data is exported to excel, then these comments do not appear in excel download. Comments updated have to be referred while reviewing the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Knox support in File Connector

Have the knox support in the file connector stage reading delimited file or orc file.
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration