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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enhance CDC z/OS to support Db2 z/OS RBA/LRSN values in full length (New JCF: COMMITSEQ/INTENTSEQ)

We plan to migrate existing SQL Replication CCD tables to CDC Live Audit tables. For that we need to identify the exact values for the source RBA/LRSN log-points to keep the original sequence of DML and to identify the COMMIT scope of the transact...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Login portal with prefered Product and content language using a parameterized URL

m_productLocale and m_contentLocale parameters doesn't work in Cognos 11. In 10.2.2, we can use the following URL to embedded in our web application.https://sde-bds/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&m_pro...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Cert Based Authentication for ObjectManager

Currently, ObjectManager does not allow for Liberty to use Cert based API authentication. To support cert based security requirements, ObjectManager needs to support calling a .crt or cert file as a parameter/password rather than only a simple str...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Is a defect

PAW Plans: Individual submission of users of the same PAW user group

Right now, after one member of a group submits a task within a Plan in PAW, the task is completed for the entire group and all other team members can no longer submit their part of the task. However, this might not reflect the reality of a plannin...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Federated PASSTHRU Capability in Watson Query (WQ)

IBM's federated technology supports SET PASSTHRU to a remote Server. This enables SQL syntax native to the remote data repository to be sent. This is useful for performance comparisons (e.g. predicate pushdown) to be made from the same end-user cl...
11 months ago in Watson Query 0 Not under consideration

PAW Plans: Locking assets of a task for further input after the task has been submitted

Currently, it is not possible to (automatically) lock associated assets of a task within a Plan once it has been submitted and is waiting for approval or after the submission has been accepted to prevent any changes to the entered or already accep...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
11 months ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
11 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

New dynamically moving User Interface UI causes accidental delete

The new UI that dynamically resizes the dialog node tree, the details of the currently selected node and the search panel is very helpful. However, I ran into an issue where I was trying to click on something and just as I pushed the button, the s...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

CP4D: High Availability (HA) and disruption free upgrades during version /OCP upgrades.

Our customer is requiring a “highly available” deployment (described as 99.5% up time) to support a business critical workload. They are using many of cloud Pak for data services. However , they are running few mission critical data analytics pipe...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release