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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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Add Official Support for Red Panda / Kafka for CDC Replication

Please review the Red Panda distribution for Kafka for approval. We have been assured that Red Panda follows the Apache Kafka protocol used by CDC Replication. We would like to have Red Panda added to the supported distributions for Kafka. Thank you.
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Support Pre-Cacheing of MDX Views via ViewConstruct

Currently MDX views are not supported in the ViewConstruct function. Therefore there is no way to pre-cache content that is needed to render explorations and other types of PAW content. This leads to a slow user experience. This issue is made wors...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

To notify user before timeout

Right now when timeout is happening, TM1Web would just become irresponsive, or a new action would then cause a timeout error, however, unlike other product or website, it prompts to user and ask if the user want to continue working or not.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Have the features and function available on system Z like scanning and refactoring ported to the IBM i COBOL/400

Useful to refactor the COBOL code in IBM i and to be able to migrate it to JAVA eventually. It will benefit all of IBM customers running on the IBM i platform. It should work same way as its working for Z platform.
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration
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Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Dremio Official Support Need

There is a connector for dremio in the product. We can connect and run metadata enrichment, but we cannot perform other actions such as data quality. When we researched, we learned that this is not officially supported. With this being officially ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

PostgreSQL as the source does not support BIT (Data type )

We use CDC as the main real-time synchronization tool. However, when a postgresql database is encountered, when there are BIT data type tables in the table, the table cannot be copied using cdc. As a result, many data on the production line cannot...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1

Provide Alerts on Long running Jobs based on the historic runs

Can we add a feature to alert DataStage batch administrator based on the history of long running jobs.
8 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review