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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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Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Customisation of reconciliation reports

Cognos should allow customisation of the reconciliation reports ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' and 'Intercompany Balance' reports) to include the space for sign-off, name and designation of the preparer and reviewer/approver, along with the ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Capability to provide review comments against individual analysis/forms

It would be helpful if the Controller allows the reviewing entity/reviewer to provide review comments against individual submissions (forms or analysis within the form, where applicable) reported by the subsidiaries in Cognos. The reporting entity...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Enable InfoSphere CDC for Microsoft SQL Server on Linux

We want to run the Microsoft SQL Server agent in a container on the mainframe. Which requires the agent to be ported to Linux. When running the agent on the mainframe it will be much easier to manage high availability of the whole CDC solution.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Legend title sizing based on space in visualisation

The Legend on visualisations in Planning Analytics Workspace is limited to a certain number of characters and is not dependent on the amount of space available in the visualisation. This means that some element names are cut off in the legend of t...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Searching for widget properties in PAW

We could probably debate forever about what properties of a widget belong in which category but, for example. Under Visualization , Column and Row Headers we have options to do with the format of the headers. Under Custom, Table Style, we hav...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Increase dasd volume limit beyond 1 disk

With our current storage configuration, CDC is giving a IEC032I E37-08 on our sysut1. It's our understanding that CDC does not currently allow multivolume datasets. We're requesting that 'feature' be added.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Cap the max slots in SIG

We have a requirement where we need to set a cap at the sig level so that no application can go above on the maximum number of slots. Use case===========At the SIG level I have set the SPARK_EGO_SLOTS_MAX: 10 which is the max allowable for any use...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration