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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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Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Create scheduled jobs from Git integrated project

Our team is working on an Analytics project for which there is a need of running/ scheduling an overnight job on GIT Enabled projects. Upon investigating the problem further, it was observed that in CP4D GIT integrated project , we cannot run or s...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Hide the parent selection on Create View when the parent is already selected

When we go the task view of an object, for example a Risk, on the task view if we have associated objects, for example, a Control. From here we can add a new control using the 'Add New' button. In this case on the create view of the Control, the p...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

QUIESCE utility: Add the functionality described in the REORG drain-spec to the QUIESCE utility

Currently the QUIESCE utility has no capability to mitigate its impact on end user application workloads like the REORG utility does via its drain-spec functionality.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Relative Proportional Spreading in Planning Analytics Excel

There is no functionality in the current planning analytics excel to do Relative proportional spreading be it in value or in %.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Mark an item to go to balancing function after payment repair is completed

Provide an ability to mark/identify an item in payment repair, so that the batch that contains the marked item will go to TCR, even though the batch is in balance. Right now, the user changes the amount to all 9999999999 in payment repair to force...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Future consideration

Set object status to prohibit data access

Before we drop a Db2 table we need to make sure that noone use the object in any way. We solve this now by stopping the tablespace and keeping it stopped for about six months. This means that noone can access the data and noone can run a utility a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans - Assignment and Submission Improvements

The addition of Applications and Plans in the new PAW experience has been very helpful in making PAW more collaborative. However, there are some improvements needed to make it easier to use and be more useful: The default "Everyone" group that app...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Disable auto scroller functionality to top of the page on toggling between tabs

On clicking on information such as related objects, eg: risks in risk registers, and then navigate back to the Risk Register tab, the screen always returns to the top of the page instead of returning you to the section that you were previously in....
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration