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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Enable reading NUMBER(1) columns in New Oracle CDC stage as INTEGER rather than BYTE

There is an existing CI in the old system for this; adding it to the Ideas portal for customer visibility. StreamSets documentation explains that we convert Oracle's Number type to SDC data types based on precision and scale, converting NUMBER fie...
13 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Proper reaction on browser events in RDM HUB

The customer has reported malfunctioning during management of referential data in IBM RDM HUB.
13 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

WA new experience and old experience is confusing for client

Some client has many assistants, some in old experience, some in new experience. Need a unified view to better view how many assistants.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

IBM Change Data Capture High-Availability

ABN AMRO, one of the biggest IBM clients in the Netherlands, is facing a problem with CDC Software. The discussion revolves around improving the availability of the CDC agent in a Linux-distributed environment, replicating data from a mainframe to...
25 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release
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Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration