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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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Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update references for derived query items when changing the query operation/reference

For advanced reports it is essential to operate with derived queries. Such queries are using a query operation (like join, union etc.) or a query reference as the data source. You often get to the point where you need to make changes to your deriv...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Hashi Vault support for Kv1 engine

CPD does not support Hashi Vault using the Kv1 engine at the moment. We would request to enhance CPD product which includes support for Hashi vault Kv1 engine too.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

User exits on Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data

Currently, user exits are not supported on Data Replication for CP4D. It would be good to support this to enable customers to migrate from InfoSphere Data Replication (CDC) that are currently using user exits. Thanks!
4 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

IBM CDC support on Orcale - AWS RDS

The request is to support the IBM CDC replication engine for Oracle - AWS RDS. In the specific case all pre. req. of Oracle XStreme and Oracle databases are supported by AWS and AWS RDS Oracle custom managed (Amazon RDS custom) are satisfy.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration