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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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Can't easily select summaries only in a hierarchy

With the new IBM PA Edit Set, it only allows us to keep or choose Leaf Level with the Attributes and Selector tools. If we could even just have “<>” as the choice for the Level tool, we could get back missing function.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Make charts show data drop zones by default

Charts hide the drop zones by default, but dragging an item over the chart will automatically show the drop zones.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

UUID for PostgreSQL in CDC

Many modern PostgreSQL databases contain tables with columns of UUID type, which are often used as primary keys (e.g. are critical for the replication process).Adding support for replication of such tables (with UUID columns) will extend the usefu...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

PAW: Combining stacked bar charts and line charts

No possibility to combine a stacked bar chart with a line chart in PAW e.g. comparing planning version 1 in form of a stacked bar chart with planning version 2 in form of a line chart (current workaround is a PAFE report)
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Temporal table support for column-organized tables

Currently, a column-organized table cannot be a temporal table because a PERIOD SYSTEM_TIME or PERIOD BUSINESS_TIME declaration is not supported in column-organized tables. This prohibits temporal data management with BLU. We request that column-o...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Delivered

kafka connector should be able to read only committed messages

Our Kafka Producer writes messages on a Kafka topic acting transactionally and it could rollback the transaction when certain events occur. As of now, the behaviour of the Kafka connector is to read also uncommitted messages (see case TS003289786)...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Eliminate display limit when exploding application profiles

We recently had a need to use the Recovery Expert to recover all objects (tablespaces and indexes) in a database with a large number of objects in it. There are about 540 tables and just over 1000 indexes in the database. I created an application ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Expose Global Search Capability for Custom Attributes from UI

When I create a Asset Custom Attribute from IU I cannot make the field globally searchable. I know API has the capability to make the attribute searchable. When will be the global_search_searchable flag be added to UI?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Data replication CDC can't support Oracle AFD(ASM Filter Dirver)

When Oracle is 12c (or above) and configured with AFD(ASM Filter Driver), InfoSphere CDC can't read asm logs correctly
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

CQMINTV - Empty intervals listing causes slowness

CQMINTV command struggles when it lists too many empty intervals(AVAIL NO). Our DBAs were quite unhappy when they figured out the issue. The problem was when the backstore datasets are removed/deleted from the disc and when CQMINTV list those as e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Delivered