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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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A visual indicator on reports for fields with filters.

Users would benefit from having a visual indicator on the header column title that makes it easier for users to select a filter to use on that column.
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for additional Flow Models using OpenManta Extensions in Informatica EDC exports

Informatica EDC exports for OpenManta Extension connections only supports Custom ETL and Custom Reports flow models. This becomes an issue if the customer is modelling file-based integrations on the customer's internal systems using OpenManta Exte...
22 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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...
22 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 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...
22 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 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...
23 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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...
23 days ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
5 months ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Increase NRS backup size limit

Current NRS backup limit is about 2TB, this is kind small to us as we had NRS failures because the backup size exceeds the limit A larger NRS backup size can help to avoid nrs failures.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted