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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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JDBC and ODBC driver for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

We see a lot of customers moving to D365 from AX2009 and AX2012, most of the customers have a datavarehouse between their Cognos solution, but nearly every customer also have the need for live ad-hoc reporting as well, when they have month closing...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Enable Out of the Box metrics for watsonx.ai monitoring, alerting and dashboarding

Our client wants to have end-to-end capabilities to detect issues related to the models deployed on watsonx.ai. Currently, watsonx.ai has limited ability on it's own without watsonx.gov in terms of monitoring performance and health. We request to ...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Manta COBOL scanner should support 88 level variables in COBOL scanner

Why is it useful? This makes lineage complete and accurate for COBOL programs using 88 level variables. Who wuld benefit from it? Manta users How should it work? Manta Flow Viewer repo should list all 88 variables and appear in lineage with indire...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Not under consideration

Add Explicit LDAP Domain Selection UI

Summary Introduce a dedicated UI control—either a drop‑down list or an editable text box—that requires users to explicitly select or enter the LDAP domain when authenticating. The supported domains are: USWIN VDSI ADEBP The chosen domain must be p...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

PCI Compliance for CP4DaaS

I have a client in banking who is leveraging CP4D on-prem and wants to migrate to CP4DaaS and requires PCI Compliance. They are currently leveraging the following solutions within CP4D: - Match 360- Db2 - IKC - Cognos
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

MDM CR operator should check for all the valid connections/path at the time of reconciling .

Operators are designed to watch for changes in a set of resources, which can include Secrets , ConfigMaps , and other Kubernetes resources. The operator should watch for changes to resources (including secrets) and then take action accordingly. Bu...
5 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review