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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CDC Reduce Authorities required

The IIDR Oracle Xstream agent requires high levels of db authorities like create any table, drop any table - these are not required when the agent is only being used as a source and cause problems with our security guidelines and policiesWe would ...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Nonlinear solver for CPLEX

Add nonlinear optimization capability to CPLEX. Many real-life models are nonlinear by nature. CPLEX solver requires a linear model to work. A good nonlinear solver can often times overperform a linearized form of a real-life model. Having a nonli...
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

LOAD into accelerator table via ALIAS name

Currently, with IDAA Loader v2.1 it is not possible to LOAD data into target accelerator tables that are referenced via ALIAS names. It would be helpful and a great enhancement, e.g. for migration scenario to future IDAA versions, to reference the...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Request to move the non-active jobs into Queue State instead of showing all the Jobs in Running State.

In ICP4D 4.6.5 Env there are around 20+ Jobs that are running in the state, when it comes to reality only 8 Active Runs means 8 jobs are handled in parallel, in that can the rest 16+ need to move into the Status: Queued instead of Running Status b...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics For Excel - Undo

Have the ability to undo the last action e.g. if a cube was updated.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Set Special Registers with profile tables for local applications

It would be nice to set the current explain mode (special register) with the help of profile tables (dsn_profile_table & dsn_profile_attributes) for local applications. In our case it's CICS. At the moment it's only possible for remote applica...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Space Optimization tasks monitoring

When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PAW Plans: Individual submission of users of the same PAW user group

Right now, after one member of a group submits a task within a Plan in PAW, the task is completed for the entire group and all other team members can no longer submit their part of the task. However, this might not reflect the reality of a plannin...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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