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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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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.

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IIDR CDC backup and recovery documentation

Couldn't find much information regarding the cdc backup and recovery procedures, especially CDC for BQ.
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Action V (Display SQL text) should show SQL in ISPF VIEW session

Presenting the SQL text directly in ISPF VIEW/EDIT will give the user direct access to all the brilliant commands in ISPF VIEW/EDIT including EDIT macros and CUT/PASTE. This will be much faster than first EXPORT and then enter ISPF VIEW/EDIT on th...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

zIIP enables FPECMAIN

Processing huge volume of DB2 Accounting records require significant amount of GCP CPU, DB2PM has become a less attractive product in terms of processing costs. To maintain the product's attractiveness, portion of processing should be made zIIP el...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Ability to save Dashboard/Story for offline use

Ability to save, export or otherwise consume a Cognos Analytics dashboard or story while disconnected from the Cognos server. I know this has been declined in the past but I continue to get asked for this in pre-sales and consulting engagements. W...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for connecting WKC to Egeria using external Kafka cluster with Kerberos

We have been trying to setup WKC & Egeria metadata exchange messages but, when the external Kafka cluster is using kerberos the configuration does not work. Customer is requesting add support to secure messages exchange between Kafka and WKC u...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Ability to sort the calculations list based on the column headings

Currently admins are not able to sort / filter the list of calculations that have been configured. The behaviour required is the same as sorting a list of workflows
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Data Table enhancements

Like what is in Data Tables as a start, but there is functionality missing from them. I can't change the order of grouping, i.e. say I want the current biennium to show in the first row, no way to do this. Filter is lacking, it needs a deselect an...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Export Simulation Analysis Results

We'd like an ability to export the simulation analysis results, including all rule and attribute related analyses. We'd like to be able to do simulation and analysis for a longer period of time (30, 60, 90 days). However, due to memory and time re...
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted