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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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Add ipv6 capability to CDC.

Please add support to the z/OS CDC system started task that runs on the mainframe which is the Db2 replication source. The target is Oracle and we already have the Linux CDC instance working with IPv6 to Oracle. We are requesting the IPv6 protocol...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable.

Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable. The equivalant has already been made dynamically updatable in DB2 - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=1152-manageability-enhancements
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

A way to save user-specific context in PAW

PAW is missing a way (like cookies) to save selected dimension elements per user, e.g. to provide a user-specific default value. With this it should also be possible to keep elements selected from one PAW workbook to another.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Keep job in memory for a specified time period

Allow job to be kept in memory for an extended amount of time beyond global setting
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Future consideration

A Trino platform connector is needed for Cloud Pak for Data

Client is in need of a platform connector for Cloud Pak for Data for Trino as a data source. Please note Trino reference documentation: https://trino.io/docs/current/security.html
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

RLF DSNRLMTxx table field RLFIP allow subnet wildcard

we have a need to restrict threads with RLF by specifying userid and source IP with a subnet wild card. the source ips change with each "logon". In order to restrict all possible ips under a given subnet, we would need to enter 255 X 255 ips. allo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release