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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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Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data masking

Hi, We are getting the requirement to mask the data that CDC is publishing into target kafka topics. Currently, we find this feature is not available. It would be great, if you can plan and add this feature to IIDR CDC. Thanks, Kotteeswaran
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Migrating Changes Only

There is the new tool which allows you to compare two environments which is pretty good at showing a complete list of changes. We would like to now migrate only the differences between the two environments. Given the changes span the whole range o...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Db2 data page validation

Db2 broken data page was copied by Image Copy Utility, which rendered image copy unusable. Check Page option was not sufficient to detect broken page. Mitigation doesn't exist. Data are lost. Proposal: Create separate tool and/or enhanced Copy Uti...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Set up load balancing for Planning Analytics 2.0.1 PAW & Docker

We would like to set up load balancing.Currently the PAW Docker installation is a single point of failure for the Planning Analytics 2.0.1 application.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Server Install

Would prefer to run Lifecycle manager from a server rather than a desktop, but can't do that because when you log off a server, then it disables the application. Would like to be able to leave the machine and still leave the Lifecycle Manager stil...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

My customer would like to use all Python RandomForest function by SPSS Modeler.

SPSS Modeler 18.2 has RandomForest node. It is function SPSS Modeler can use from Python modeling. SPSS Modeler RandomForest node doesn't use all function of all Python RandomForest function. My customer would like to use all Python RandomForest f...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

TRY_CAST for DB2 LUW (CAST without error)

"New" scalar-function TRY_CASTReturns a value cast to the specified data type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration