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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add Ability to Specify Archive Datasets as Input for LAT Scan

A user will run a scan to create an archive file, or several scans over time, each creating a file. When he wants to revisit these, he has found he is only able to specify the start and end times in his window. It seems that LAT will read through ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions (13.x and 12.x) support

Companies from public and commercial sector are increasingly using PostgreSQL database to capture their data and many of them are asking for near real time data replication from this data source.
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

CDC should support Oracle 12c extended data types

Current CDC version (11.4) although supports Oracle 12, doesn't support what Oracle calls "extended data types":https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF55623 Basically on 12c Oracle allows longer maximums for types VARC...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2If the cognos analytics components communicate securely between the dispatcher and gateway, Cognos Transformer 11 does not support connecting to the dispatcher by using TLS 1.2, it only sup...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Custom Colour for Conditional Formatting

Currently, when designing a report, we are trying to have a standard look and feel, and using colours to compliment the company's theme. While we have colour wheel available to change the colours on many object, conditional formatting colour is st...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Client Application Name (QMDAAPPL from IFCID 0003) used in column RLFEUAN from SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx tables to governor distributed applications

We would like to use table SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx (SYSIBM.DSNRLMT01) in order to avoid that certain applications, coming from distributed environment and reaching Db2 for z/OS through DDF, can execute SQL statements. We’d like to completely block these ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 9 Delivered

Sort and Cascade Filters in Dashboards

It would be great if we can treat the top filters for dashboards as data items that we can sort on, filter to display values of interest and cascade.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Delivered

Integration between WKC and Cognos

The more customers work on the idea of the "Ladder to AI", the more integration between all steps is needed. When defining Metadata and Governance in WKC, using the assets in Watson Studio, DataStage and other components, Cognos should be taken in...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Delivered

Drill to Parents in Set Editor

Set Editor has ability to Drill Down to Children. It is missing the ability to Drill Up to the parents. This is capability in Perspectives Subset editor
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

User Defined SQL within Report Studio access

Hi, Is it possible to include in future versions of Cognos the ability to allow specific users only access to read and execute report studio reports containing User Defined SQL but deny these users write access to the User defined SQL. Currently i...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered