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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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CDC support for replication from SQL Server 2017 on Linux

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data from SQL Server. We would like to move SQL Server to Linux but CDC only supports SQL Server on Windows. CDC should support replicating data from SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Hide Parent for DrillDown

We are using a Tree-Map and when DrillingDown one member the parent also stays visible. For Visualizations this can be misleading or confusing for the viewer and so far you have to click manually on the parent element to hide it again. This exampl...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

ALL: Improve password encryption

Improve the password encryption between the agents and Access Server.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Edit counter dimension in Cognos web

We use dimensions in PL and BAL reporting and therefore also counter dimension in intercompany transactions. It is possible to enter and update this variable in the thick client, but not in the web client. As this is crucial in our intercompany re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

An enhancement to Object Compare

Our main user of Object Compare is having a problem using the product
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Programmatically control textbox contents either with MDX or sync dimension widget

To provide a better user experience if we could control the contents of a textbox by synchronizing to a dimension we can provide titles and report headings that update based on user selections giving more meaning\readability for visualizations. Pr...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

new DB2 SQL/DDL > DECLARE (GLOBAL) TEMPORARY VARIABLE

Db2 v11 introduced CREATE VARIABLE. pretty handy... but it must be created in advance. How about a dynamic SQL/DDL equivalent? DECLARE TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyx OR DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyz It would be useful for anyone (ie. the sam...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration