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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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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

IPL Index Build performance

On large Index Builds with LOG_INDEX_BUILDS enabled the performance of the IPL thread degrades drmatically if the whole index cannot be held in BUFFER CACHE. Once a required page is swapped out of BUFFER Cache then the IPL thread reads the require...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 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...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 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)...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Column Nullability is not detected from the source and visible on the UI

When MDI/MDE performed connecting to the source - it is expected that if the column is Nullable at the source (defined in the DDL) then the MDE should capture and reflect the column as Nullabile in the UI.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Custom attribute at field level

To be able to create a Custom property and assign it at the Field Level
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Alternate Hierarchy Limitation: Is there plan to enhance report building and performance when it comes to using alt. hier in PAX?

Currently, only limited to Quick & Exploration. Although Quick is considered as static, it breaks when there are changes to any dimensions and/or alternate hierarchies. This is so frustrating to users. Is there an alternate for using alternate...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQE-DA...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Need Better Hourglass Function in PAw

The little spinning Circle that let's one know that the system is calculating is too subtle. It needs to be a little more obvious.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered