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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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Automatic Collection of Performance Metrics at Started Task/Process startup

Today, in order to collect performance metrics about the execution of the CDC tasks/processes, it is necessary to start the subscription, and after starting the subscription you then need to specify which metrics you want to collect for EACH subsc...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Retrun SQL code to verify

My customer is developing an application that issues SQL to DB2 using the CLASSIC FEDERATION(CF).CF handles the SQL code other than 0 and +100 as errors and does not return it.The user is unable to handle the SQL code and is unable to develop a va...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Utterance segmentation made sensitive to speaker identity (features)

Utterance segmentation appears to be entirely independent of (the features used for) speaker labeling. Specifically, it was noticed that even though the speaker labeling correctly identifies that a new speaker (very clear because it goes from male...
almost 6 years ago in Speech Services 1 Functionality already exists

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Set default width of vertical divider

The entire name of the PowerPlay Reports cannot be displayed in the navigation bar, because they are a bit too long. Ability to set the default width of vertical divider for all users.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DELETE entry in SYSCOPY based on when the image copy dataset is not found in the ICF catalog

Db2 Recover or Db2 Log Analysis tool could get an error referring to a Image Copy dataset that not longer exists. The above could happen when there is a misalignment between the Db2 catalog information (syscopy) and ICF catalog.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Oracle 12c Release 1 64 bit Client / Windows 2012R

InfoSphere Information Server on Windows2012R2 should work with Oracle 64bit client for client data sources. The 32bit Oracle client isn't supported by Oracle, somehow. Customer wants to use Windows 2012R2 because they use an Oracle RAC SUN solari...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

The Spark job should use the mount_path attribute of the storage volume by default

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration