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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.

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


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Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
4 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
12 days ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Submitted

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
6 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Connector to SPSS Modeler on CP4D read flat files with fixed sizes and not delimited

We need to provide the connector in CP4D to read fixed-size flat files, similar to the one available in the SPSS modeler classic out of the CP4D.
about 1 month ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Add Support for Hash and Hash iterator Objects in SAS Code Scanner

CWB leverages Hash and Hash Iterator Objects in our SAS code. Manta currently fails to parse these which has resulted in gaps in lineage, preventing end to end lineage . The details of the needed HASH support can be found here: https://documentati...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Pushing CDC Logs to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk automatically

In current modern world, It would be good if CDC product is capable to push the logs (Capture, Apply, Trace) automatically to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk which will help to setup alerts, dashboards, etc., to closely monitor the CDC per...
8 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

"Prevent the dbschema command from incrementing sequence values"

Currently, running dbschema increments the value of sequences, even when it is documented it is the expected behavior, we consider that it is not desireable.
11 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
21 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / pureScale 5 Submitted

Calculate / Rebuild Option on PAW Action Button

PAfe Action buttons have the option to calculate only (without running a TI or Navigating), and within that they have the option to recalculate or rebuild (for dynamic reports). PAW Action buttons do NOT have this functionality. I have worked arou...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted