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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request. Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also common...
11 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Multiple User Administrators for Controller Web

It is currently only possible for a single administrator (ADM) to link IBM ID's to Controller users. In the interest of business continuity and to avoid credentials sharing, it would be really beneficial if additional user administrators could be ...
11 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Ice berg table format and connector for datastage Infosphere Information server:Generic- 11.7.4.1

Hello Team, We have datastage 11.7.1.4 implemeted on premises on bare metal server. We have database on DB2 DPF IIAS 2C2S in RDBMS. Customer is planning to migrate DB2 RDBMS data to Iceberg table format via datastage to private cloud. If we can ha...
12 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Web based Dashboard/Adminisrator for InfoSphere CDC

The current CDC Management Console is Windows-only based which compulsorily requires a Windows machine. The availability of a browser based Dasboard/Administration interface will help is easy and better usage of the features. This feature can be i...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Direct input from values at C-Level in dynamic Reports

Currently, there is no (user-friendly) option of directly entering values in a dynamic report cell, so that this value is being spread (proportional) through the corresponding elements underneath it. i.e. in Quick Reports this is possible. For man...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
5 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Add retry logic for z agent on the source side

Today the IDR agent for DB2 on z only use retry logic for the target side. The request is to add retry logic to the source side. For example, a table is defined as a child in RI relationship. when you load the child table: 1. it goes into CHKP sta...
12 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Ability to export/import Controller Web Review Reports

Inside Controller classic, it is not possible to export "Reports Web". Specifically, there is not an option for this when exporting structures. => Therefore it is currently not possible to export/import Controller Web Review Reports. Please can...
13 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Submitted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted OR ... any visual indicator of if a record in WD has been updated, for eg: may be additional field in the WD index showing the update timesta...
13 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted