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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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Ability to mask a column by both a data class and a tag

We want the ability to have a data protection rule that uses an "And" clause and a "Tag" and appropriately masks based only on the "AND TAG = " clause. Right now we found that when we tag a column with the data class and a tag, the column only mas...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Support for Linux ARM

We need a build for Linux ARM64. Preferably redhat enterprise 8. We're aiming our software for the ARM architecture and CPLEX for ARM is currently only available on OSX, but not for Linux. This is blocking us.
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/db2-db2-server-tcpip-port-numbers For Db2 Version 11.5.5 or older, the ports used are 60000 and higher. For example, ports 60006 - 60011 would be ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Future consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

BACKUP DATABASE VENDOR AZURE

Please extend BACKUP DATABASE to support cloud vendor type of AZURE. Presently, DB2 only supports S3 protocols.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

transaction log backup compress and encrypt on SQL Server

currently we are experiencing replication issues such as the one in PMR no TS009339747 with the error the transaction log backup is compressed or encrypted. IBM Infosphere Data Replication does not support compressed or encrypt. currently, why log...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Automated Data Mapping for RDM Data Imports

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM requires manual mapping of data elements to their corresponding column names and data types when importing data from files like CSV, XML, or JSON. This can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for dat...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated Reference Data Cleanup and Versioning Maintenance

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC creates a new version for each updated dataset, leading to the accumulation of older versions. There is no built-in mechanism to automatically purge older versions or retain only a specific number of recent versio...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

GIT Integration for Reference Data Management (Source Control Tool)

Problem Statement: Currently, managing code related to Reference Data MAPs, SETs, RD-Types, and small static Reference Data in IKC involves manual code copying across environments, leading to version control challenges and potential deployment inc...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Data validation or limitation for (string) cells

From Excel one is used to the functionality of data validation. It would be great to have this notion realized in TM1 as well. Our concrete business case is that users enter IDs for new elements in a business-driven dimension. These IDs should fol...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration