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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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.

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CDC support for replication to Azure SQL Data Warehouse

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data to SQL Server. We would like to move our data to Azure SQL Data Warehouse but CDC for SQL Server fails to configure an instance against Azure SQL Data Warehouse. CDC should support replicating da...
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

The JSON files generated by GNM for functions such as NAME_MATCH_WHY_JSON, GNR_ORG_WHY_JSON and EDIT_DISTANCE_WHY_JSON are flat structured with all the data parameters at the same level. Enhance the JSON structure to represent the correct root/tree structure for these functions by GNM

Currently t here is an issue with the root/tree structure of the JSON that is generated for the above functions by GNM. The JSON files generated by GNM for functions such as NAME_MATCH_WHY_JSON, GNR_ORG_WHY_JSON and EDIT_DISTANCE_WHY_JSON are flat...
11 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Under review

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow to update the name and definition of built-in data quality dimensions or Hidden the built-in dimensions in English via API or Translate to the default browser´s language

IKC has built-in data quality dimensions' name and description only in English and it cannot be updated or hidden via API. But all IBM´s customers that don´t have English as their primary language must create new data quality dimensions in their p...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

execute reports, data sets, and jobs using a webhook

The modern data stack involves various technologies for extraction, loading, and transformation of data. Achieving appropriate sequence across technologies can be a challenge but webhooks can resolve this issue to allow different platforms to comm...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add new chunks while a backup is in progress

In huge environments with lots of data changes it is important to add more space (chunks) to a dbms at any time. Currently this is not possible while an L0 backup is running. Depending on the size of an dbms an L0 backup can take several hours. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support multilingual data labels for non-directly referenced query items in DQM

When you have a multilingual Framework Manager package and re-use query items (for example with a join or query reference) in your report. The data item labels of this report will be, in contrast to CQM, not in the content-locale language (defined...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration