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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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Enhance Db2 Federation to support pushdown of CSE to Oracle

There is a need to support the pushdown of CSEs (Common Subquery Expressions) as part of the federation to Oracle databases. This limitation has existed for quite a while and there has been an ongoing request for this functionality for years.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Add support in Db2 Federation for join and aggregation pushdown for MongoDB

Currently, the driver for use with MongoDB does not support the $lookup operator which would allow for the pushdown of the joining of two or more collections to the source DB. Adding support would allow for joining collections at the source and re...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Add support in Db2 Federation for the pushdown of Timestamp to MongoDB

Currently Federation to MongoDB does not support the pushdown of the Timestamp data type. This limits the ability to filter data by date or timestamp at the source.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 2 Delivered

Add support for a CLOB data type for MongoDB federation

Currently a long string or text field greater than 32k is truncated when fetching from MongoDB. This limits the data that can be retrieved and processed via Federation from MongoDB and other NoSQL data sources.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered

Certify Oracle 23c for Federation from Db2

The next major release of Oracle (23c) is due out this year (2023) and customers will start to migrate their federated source databases to the new release. We need to ensure that we certify compatibility as soon as possible to keep up with the tec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Delivered

Allow to disable plugin related requests through HostFactory Rest Api and Symphony GUI

JPMC currently uses Symphony 7.3.1. We intend to allow user to use HostFactory Rest API, from e.g. on-prem to Symphony cluster on AWS. We happen to see Symphony 7.3.2, which we intend to upgrade to later, supports HostFactory plugin related reques...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Delivered

Alternate Hierarchy Limitation: Is there plan to enhance report building and performance when it comes to using alt. hier in PAX?

Currently, only limited to Quick & Exploration. Although Quick is considered as static, it breaks when there are changes to any dimensions and/or alternate hierarchies. This is so frustrating to users. Is there an alternate for using alternate...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQE-DA...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

consistent jcl member names via online and Batch facility

There are 2 options to generate JCL for a recovery plan for an application profile: online interface and via batch. The JCL naming convention for both the options are different. Online interface generated JCL members say 20 jobs are all generated ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Disable AI Forecast button for certain user groups

We would like to allow AI Forecast functionality only for certain user groups. It would be great, if it would be possible to set permission by group, who have capability to make AI Forecast and who doesnt.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered