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


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Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration
116 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

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.
10 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...
10 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...
10 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

XStream agent should not try to activate supplemental logging for tables which already have it

We've seen the XStream Oracle agent trying to activate supplementar logging during an agent restart and during subscription restarts. On a specific customer environment this becomes very critical, because the application maintains open transaction...
10 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Multiple User Administrators for Controller Web

It is currently only possible for a single administrator (ADM) to link IBM ID's to Controller users. In the interest of business continuity and to avoid credentials sharing, it would be really beneficial if additional user administrators could be ...
10 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 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...
10 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Increase available number of global job ids for LSF

Current job id is limited to 32b. With ever growing number of jobs and scaling of multi-cluster use, the job id should be extended beyond 32b to avoid frequent rollover situations and/or cases of redundant ids. Recommend to increase to 64b or more.
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review