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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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CDC Reduce Authorities required

The IIDR Oracle Xstream agent requires high levels of db authorities like create any table, drop any table - these are not required when the agent is only being used as a source and cause problems with our security guidelines and policiesWe would ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Authorize multiple custom menu-items (extension) in navigation panel as alternative to portal pages

In Cognos 10 we made use of portal pages a lot. Since these portal pages are not available anymore in Cognos Analytics 11 (at least there not actively supported) we are looking for a good alternative. Our goal is to create a menu structure within...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD into accelerator table via ALIAS name

Currently, with IDAA Loader v2.1 it is not possible to LOAD data into target accelerator tables that are referenced via ALIAS names. It would be helpful and a great enhancement, e.g. for migration scenario to future IDAA versions, to reference the...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable PAX in Excel 365 with Optimization for high DPI screens

As described in http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10716521Planings Analytics does not support high-DPI screens and users should set 'optimize for compatibility' We want to use PAX with the option 'optimize for best appearance'. Plea...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

"Analyst" Default role exchanged to "Consumer"

On Planning Analytics Workspace (on Premise) we would like to customize/change the Default role of PAW new users from "Analyst" to "Consumer" beforehand user takes access to the system.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add IBM Cloud Private Path as a connection type in the Common Core

We would like to demonstrate by IBM TechxcHange in October 2024 how we can integrate watsonx.ai cloud service with IBM Cloud Workloads connected via the IBM private network. Workloads include VMware, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQL etc or anything workload ...
5 months ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release