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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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CDC for Oracle database: if you are replicating an tables from Oracle where there are encrypted tablespaces, CDC should warn that it cannot be used as source

A customer has pointed out that the Oracle team might encrypt tablespaces, databases or any eligible for encryption object without any prior warning. This customer would benefit of CDC for Oracle database warning that the source tables are encrypt...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

COBOL scanner should support COMPUTE verb with functions

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Manta COBOL scanner should support termination statement.

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Planned for future release

Manta COBOL scanner should support Mainframe utilities like IDCAMS, SORT, IKJEFT1B, CAFCP, IEFBR14, and PCDMULTK

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that int...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Support EXEC CICS statements in COBOL scanner

Background: we have requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that intera...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Data module: Publish, change impact, and report dependencies

It would be nice to have the same funcionality for publish, change impact, and report dependencies like in Framework Manager
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Aliases and Attributes to be available in the cube viewer

In some models we have various Aliases to cater to 3rd party system naming or alternate product codes. Clients want to see the principal name/description based on a selected alias but also want to add an additional Alias(es) to see an alternate na...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Expand Conditional Formatting option in PAW

Currently PAW condition formatting only allows for the following 5 conditions: - Equals- Contains- Starts with- Ends with- Is empty We would like to see this extended to include at least the following additional options:- Does not equal - Does not...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's very...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists