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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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Add the feature to map bigint type to the derived expression (Source: IBMi, Target: CDC Kafka)

We have a column in a table defined as BIGINT. We are adding the replication of it. As part of requirement, the old value of the column is also needed. Would be easier to do via %BEFORE(column_name). But this throws a message "RA MSG 2013 Derived ...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

"Container Box" Object in PAW

I think about implementing something like a "container box" object that can contain all other objects like views, Charts or lists in PAW. This type of object is used in other BI Tools as well like Qlikview or BOARD. With this object you have the a...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use Cgroups to keep track of job's associated PIDs

There is a race condition where a new process could take the place of a just-ended process that was part of a job. LSF does not check if the PID XXX is the initial process or it is a new one. Furthermore, when this situation happens, it does not m...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority

After discussing this with our developers they agree that the ability to rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority. They agree that having the rename procedure automatically handle the recreation of RC...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Generate XML using Specs Map for multi occurring attributes

Generate XML using Specs Map for multi occurring attributes not supported. This is required to simplify the exports
almost 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Certify Generic Python 3.x

Currently, IBM certify version at subscription level. We request to support Python 3.x in generic way so that it can apply on minor version
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Enable to connect PA cloud admin host through citrix Perspectives

Enable to connect PA cloud admin host through citrix Perspectives
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search fields from specific datasets

Regarding Cognos Analytics functionality NLP - Natural Language Process. While searching fields using NLP, we get results from entire Cognos server which takes lot of time to search. Can we limit the search option to the Data source/Data Set that ...
almost 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Not under consideration

PAX - Ability to edit TI, Rules, Dimensions, Chores etc...

Prior Planning Analytics, we did use perspectives/architect as both a development and administration tool (for the end-user support team). It’s a formidable tool for us because this is the one place where we can edit and consult every possible TM1...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

enhancement to "force application command"

enhance the "FORCE APPLICATION" command to identify threads belonging to a particular database and purging the threads
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration