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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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Add Kafka connector in IMAM

Kafka connector is currently is missing in IMAM so no DQ rule cannot be created on Kafka Topics/Message. Kafka connector can be added or enabled in IMAM and Information Analyzer
almost 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command reports the same status for Failed and Inactive subscriptions

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command gives the same output for Failed and Inactive subscription and that is "Idle". If we are to run an User-Exit Program to automate the start-up for Failed subscriptions, we aren't able to identify the failed ones.
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Event ID 6645 Conundrum

Ideally every CDC Event ID should be unique and have a Unique description or Event Text. What we noticed is that the event ID 6645 could mean any of the following scenarios: 1. Exception occurred during replication. Exception at continue reading I...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Enable connection to Active Directory Global Catalog

We need to be able to connect to Active Directory Global catalog via default port 3268 as preffered way to interract with our AD (instead of interacting with global domain root having several domains bellow like Europe/US/Asia/... ). Cognos Doc: "...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to select 1 to many elements on a selector widget and have visualisations re-calculate

Cognos Analytics allows users to select multiple elements from a selection widget, upon selecting those items all visualisations that are synchronised to that dimension would recalculate the totals by summing the elements together from the datasou...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consistent filepath specification in Turbo Integrator

Currently, Planning Analytics Cloud is inconsitent with how file paths are specified. It requires the Fully Qualified path in the Data Source Name field, a relative path in the Data Source Name On Server, and a Mapped Drive specification in Prolog...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Join Capabilities

The table reference syntax for temporal joins needs to be expanded to include effective ways to find rows across the tables that share time affectivity.The FOR BUSINESS_TIME / FOR SYSTEM_TIME syntax does not allow for references to columns from th...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Operator action from CPCS Entries is not getting logged in SystemLogs Screen

When an operator manually updates a flag in CPCS Entries Screen, the detail is getting logged in Audit database table and not displayed in UI SystemLogs screen. It would be beneficial as MIS supporting the application to see everything on the UI S...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Functionality for retrieving inactive users added for API

Current minimal attribute API doesn't retrieve disabled users, only active ones. We propose to also have an opportunity to retrieve the inactive users. This would enable us to make the user management automatic as currently there is no way to disa...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Not under consideration