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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

enable DB2 table with status AREO for CDC in IDAA

Rabobank would like to have an enhancement that allows for CDC replication to able to be enabled or re-enabled with a table in AREO status in DB2. We understand that since PTF Level 4 we can re-enable a previously enabled table for replication, ev...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

UNIQUE INDEXES over BIGINT column can't be compressed

unique indexes over id columns (bigint) are not compressed whereas the same unique index over decimal column gets compressedindex compression for unique indexes is urgently needed to reduce disk and memory footprint
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Built in cube reporting engine so there is no need for TM1

Controller users are required to use external products for cube reporting
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Allow copy/paste of Data items between Event Studio (Like report studio)

enable copy and paste data item objects.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control package based routing options in deployment process

Assuming package based routing is set in a production environment. The routing properties will be overwritten and are unset after importing a deployment file that was created in an environment without packaged based routing. The requested function...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Debug program privileges required for CDC software on Windows servers

We are using IBM Infosphere Data Replication (IIDR/CDC) software for real time data ingest of various SQL Server hosts/dbs into DB2 for LUW environment. In our company, Windows 2019 hosts are NIST compliant and they have several policies put in pl...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration