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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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Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use DataStage parameters in Teradata Logon mechanism

Client POC migrating to Cp4D DataStage from Information Server DataStage 11.7 Import of isx failed when Teradata Connector contained parameters in the logon mechanism.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics connectivity to Informatica Data Vault

We are looking to connect to Informatica Data Vault to build some reports in Cognos Analytics
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Remove MEMBER keyword from BIND PLAN command

It is to prevent creation of such obsolete plans - they immediately get rebound generating default collections so why allowing it in the first place? In some environments implementing strict security is not possible so preventing some actions may...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Support for MDM v12 deployment on WAS BASE

We are planning for an upgrade to MDM v12, later in 2023. We as a business are moving to cloud based infrastructure and as part of that journey we are guided by corporate principles for deployment. IBM provided containers for MDM do not meet our c...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow Analysts in PAW to run Chores

We have some super users in services who need to run chores. Currently, they are unable to do so in PAx and not able to do so in PAW unless they are a modeler. We do not want these Finance super users to have additional functionality that modeler ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Changing The Default Pinned Toolbox Items

By default in Cognos Analytics 11, in the "reporting" (report studio) tool there are 6 default pinned toolbox items. So, when you click the "+" sign, you see list, crosstab, chart, etc. I know you can change your pinned items at a user level, but ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration