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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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Forecast feature to work with Leaves Hierarchy

The Forecast feature work just with time dimension that has a hierarrchy with single parent. I would like to have the option to use the leaves hierarchy. As mine would contains yyyy-mm elements. That way, it wouldn't be required to create another ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Reject link on Kafka connector.

We have a requirement to publish message on a Kafka topic from a database and only publish them once. Problem is when using the Kafka connector as target it don't support a reject link. So how do I get a notice if message fails? Kafka Connector se...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support converting non-restricted databases to restricted databases in Db2

There can be legacy databases created with non-restricted mode. However as security policies get stringent there is need to convert these databases into restricted databases. The way to convert currently is to recreate the database from scratch. I...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix

Expected FTM-MER NOT to split bank/location or Prefix/Suffix. Field 22 - for MT305 / MT600 Field 22C - for MT300, MT320 For example, current MERVA: Party Ref Party PBBEK0 0175 PBBEPX FTM-MER: Party Prefix PBBE Party Suffix K0 Ref 0175 Party Prefix...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization to fix the header size in Cognos dashboard or to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is there. Rows are getting resized automatically to fit in the defined box. But If there is no data available then header automatically resized to the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation run WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS

Infosphere Optim Archive Classic/Designer Workstation to run without needing Admin Rights on the windows. Installation with Admin Rights is ok, but the product needs to be able to run WITHOUT Admin Rights. IBM Software RFE Community: View request ...
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

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.
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deletion of empty SYSDISC datasets

BMC LOAD...DELETEFILES YES SYSDISC YES causes an empty SYSDISC file to be deleted. Also it appears this happens automatically when PARALLEL is used with the IBM utility but only with PARALLEL.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Create Shortcut button in MER Msg EDITOR screen

PBB User expecting to have shortcut button to view the next message instead of user have to quit (return to the queue) then only to select the next message in FTM-MER 1) User excepting Next button after opening the message from Message List page 2...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration