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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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Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Query optimization option for SQL statement would need to add the LOCKING ROW FOR ACCESS.

We need an enhancement request submitted in Aha to get query optimization options like Prefixes that go before the "Select" keyword, i.e. to enable "locking row for access"
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Not under consideration

Simple CDC Password Change process for Oracle Target

We are now required per compliance rules to change the password for any application ID every 30 days. We have identified steps to complete this task but they are very cumbersome and time consuming, introducing a great amount of risk and labor to m...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow relative time frame/data range in Report Definitions

Report definitions in Safer Payments only allow for a fixed time frame definition (i.e. from 2023-06-08 00:00:00 to 2023-06-09 00:00:00). At the same time Safer Payments can generate reports through a scheduled job, i.e. once per day. The job-gene...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review

DB2 Z/OS Sync Logical and Physical Parts after full Reorg

ADD PART was used to insert a new physical partition in the middle of a tablespace. Now the Logical and Physical partitions are mismatch. If a Full Reorg on the full tablespace is performed, the utility can include an option to resync the logical ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[Manta Admin UI] Hive scanner connection validation for kerberos authentication fails with errors

why is it useful? Every scanners we have worked so far like IFPC, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Netezza, Microstrategy has validate button in Manta Admin UI. It gives a confidence to users that all pre-requisites are met w.r.t connectivity from Manta...
11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Provide an Option to search calculations by Name and by Object

In Openpages 9.0.x version also if user want to check how many calculations are created on an object. there is no way to filter. If IBM consider this enhancement and implement will benefit lot of customers.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

User Access in Application not auto refreshed in Architect basis CAM security

Hello Team, We are using Planning Analytics version 2.0.9.14 and using CAPA (Cognos Analytics for Planning Analytics) for user authentication, Active Directory integration and the Cognos groups are used for managing the user access to the TM1 appl...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add feature that would let a Cognos admin to request a user's credentials be refreshed

One logical...even likely...scenario is that a Cognos admin views the license usage and discovers that one of the license groups has more users assigned to it than are actually owned by the customer. After researching which user has been granted t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration