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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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Extend FlexRep to Support Replicating to EnterpriseDB version 12 and 13 targets

Customers are limited to running on EnterpriseDB version 11 as CDC FlexRep is not officially supported on versions 12 or 13.
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Enabling Multiple MPI like OpenMPI, mvapich, and others for distributed processing Systems for optimized processing

IBM, Intel, Nvidia, and others have their own optimized MPI, also we found new versions of mvapich from Ohio State University, therefore we need take this suggestion into consideration. We hope that IBM Spectrum LSF have the unified management of ...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

Company design template / theme

Develop company own design template/theme for workspace; further special colour codes for charts arerequired.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Provide detailed information about User Exit interface in product manual

Some of the IBM software products such as IMS, Db2 and Db2 HPU, etc. provide User Exit interface to enhance the product's capability to customers' particular requirements. Such products usually have a corresponding chapter or appendix in their pro...
almost 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Full Kerberos Support for IIDR CDC for Oracle

As part of the support ticket TS004884043, we found out that there is some Kerberos support currently available in IIDR CDC and that was tested too. However, it was mentioned that CDC switches to fast loads (non jdbc) for refreshes (bigger tables)...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Planning Analytics for Excel: Zero Suppression in Quick Reports

In many cases it is very useful to have the possibilty to hide rows/columns that contain only zeros in Quick reports.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Provide "SQL Reference" product manual for DVM

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, DVM does not provide "SQL Reference" kind of product manual which describes SQL syntax rules supported by DVM. Somebody said it is because DVM is con...
almost 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered