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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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CDC support for replication from SQL Server 2017 on Linux

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data from SQL Server. We would like to move SQL Server to Linux but CDC only supports SQL Server on Windows. CDC should support replicating data from SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Edit counter dimension in Cognos web

We use dimensions in PL and BAL reporting and therefore also counter dimension in intercompany transactions. It is possible to enter and update this variable in the thick client, but not in the web client. As this is crucial in our intercompany re...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Purge utility configuration parameters enhancement request for FTM V3.0 on z/OS

The current (FTM V3.0.0.4) purge utility requires changes to a properties file, which in a production environment, is restricted. The purge utility can also benefit from re-design to allow additional configuration, delivering improved usability.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Is a defect

FTM documentation in Knowledge Center spread over several versions

Documentation for FTM is spread over multiple versions in the FTM knowledge center.For example, the Knowledge center for FTM for z/OS 3.0.1 has only information about FTM CPS, RIsk Management and Services and PFS, and misses a wide variety of info...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

OAC pages should show creation timestamp on errors

On the details page of any FTM object (PT, batch, transaction, svc_participant...) the errors tab shows a list of errors. The errors attribute include the following, but not the creation date and time IDApplication IDTypeComponent TypeComponent Na...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

WBIFN RMA Record Last Usage

In relation to the recent SWIFT Security initiatives, we want to request the functionality in FTM for SWIFT and WBIFN V3.1.1 where we can generate the last usage report for all RMA records. This functionality is available for SAA/RMA users.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

CBT automatic reconnect according to SWIFT "best practice"

We faced in production an abort of our FIN LTs with SWIFTs abort reason codes saying "Regional Processor is being shut down". After discussions on PMR 40488,311,75 and a parallel case with SWIFT, it is clear that SWIFT does not document this abort...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration