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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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Support DECFLOAT in federated data type mapping between Db2 and Db2 for z/OS

Add support for the DECFLOAT data type allowing NICKNAME creation against a Db2 for z/OS table with a DECFLOAT column. Without this support, the CREATE NICKNAME fails and a workaround is required to map the data.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Windows 10 compatibility for Data Integration and Data Quality

Boston College is providing Windows 10 Laptop to Information Server Client users. We recently observed that Windows 10 client is not compatible with Data Integration Client and Data Quality Clients
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Concurrent Login to multiple machine (Security threat)

Concurrent login with same credentials to multiple machines is against the Genpact's security policy, hence this has to be fixed in Genpact private cognos cloud environments.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lightweight API to get MDS demand and allocation stats

Lightweight API to get MDS demand and allocation stats
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Enable Business Glossary option in data modules

Hello, It would be very helpful to be joined to search Business Glossary (or internal Wiki) to retrieve additional information about the fields and tables in a data module. For the time being, this option only exists in the Report module, but it w...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Moving Maximum (like a Moving Average)

A large customer requires a Moving Maximum capability. This is similar to the Moving Average, but this would pull the maximum value from the past x rows.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Classic CDC - needs to handle IMS exits better

Currently, the Infosphere Classic CDC comes with 2 IMS exits:DFSFLGX0DFSPPUE0These datasets need to be in the IMS Steplib concatenation to be accessed, and are using the default names. Now that IMS V13 and IMS V14 can specify any module name for a...
about 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Please increase the timeout value on the SLDS contention situation.

Customers would like to have larger timeout value on the SLDS contention situation. This is because,- SLDS contention situation could happen in production. - It is not a problem or operation mistake. - In that situation, customer does not like to ...
about 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

SOLR support as Cognos data source

Hi, we have a search platform that is based on the open source project Apache Solr. We want to expose data stored within the platform to Cognos so that subsets may be modeled and incorporated into analysis. I'm told this is not yet a consideration...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration