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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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Create a build of IDR CDC with a newer JVM to support AES192

PMR: TS001205284. Bancolombia requires that Oracle connections be encrypted with AES192. In order to allow CDC Agent to connect to Oracle, Advanced Setting should be selected and extra connection string parameters should be configured to allow AES...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

HPU V5.1 - Keep the connection in TSO / DB2 CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF instead of ODBC/RRSAF (the same as HPU V4.3 version) RFE 123074

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123074 Communication switches to ODBC / RRSAF instead of DB2CALL. Our environment has the 'Exit' DSN3@ATH (Conections = TSO / DB2CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF) which changes t...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to translate document language on ingestion

This will provide the capability to select the language that the user wants in the index. Since the documents can be split/ retained as is in WDS and has the full text, there should be an out of the box integration with language translator to tran...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Pause Refresh

In Analysis there is a “Pause Refresh” button that is useful when building a report. This report stops the system from refreshing the data as you are busy making your field selection which saves time when building a report. Is there something ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maps Hints

It should be possible, as a property, to define the hint displayed when mouse hovering over a country for example. Background: currently when using latitude and longitude, users are confused by seeing those GPS coordinates which are not bringing a...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Children Section in Admin View should include Copy Associated action.

The new Admin View in 8.3 allows us to add the Dynamic Children section, which shows all the child relationships for the object (similar to the "Associations" listings on the left side pane of the old standard UI). This is great as it allows us to...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Add separate permissions for metadata enrichment areas in an import project

WKC projects in 4.5.+ use metadata import areas and metadata enrichment areas. Access control is only available at the full project level. In some instances, individual groups of tables need to be enriched by one set of SMEs and other table groups...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration