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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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Online InfoSphere backup

Currently the backup requires the InfoSphere services to be shutdown, before the application and database backup can be taken. We would like to be able to create a full system online backup, while the InfoSphere services are still running.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

refresh MQT with ur

Up to now a REFRESH MQT with the UR-Option is not possible.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Term history

The client required to have the capability the allows to have Term history shows the changes made to a glossary term over time. This section displays if term history is enabled by the Glossary Administrator and changes have been made to the term a...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Business Glossary Anywere

the following complementary functionalities are included and are required by the customer: Business Glossary for Eclipse– Cognos Framework Manager/Report– Designer integration– Governance Dashboard/SQL Views– Stewardship Center/Subscription Manage...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Business glossary capacity

the customer needs to have a functionality that allows helps you to find business information from any text-based document, Web page, or e-mail.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Automatic sync between notebook and Model Builder Python code

Avoid the frequent and confusing reinitialize of the Model Builder Python code and the source notebook by automatically updating the Model Builder Python code from the notebook.

Not recreation WeX Facets in Discovery

Currently, the customer has more than 40 facets that using per facet multiple dictionaries or even regex rules plus dictionaries. Those scenarios are not able to be set in discovery. The customer is exporting each facet as pear file to be importe...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration