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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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Heartbeat messages are not available in EP if using delimited format

1. As far as including schema changes in EP messages – at this time they don't have a pressing need so I would say you don't have to worry about that. However, they do want/need to see heartbeat messages. The manual says heartbeat messages are n...

Prevention of Spectrum LSF over-preemption

The current LSF preemption design does not prevent over-preemption (i.e. preempt more jobs than needed). When the preemption of a large low job takes some time like several minutes, the following incoming high priority jobs could preempt other run...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Zero Downtime during Online CRM Application Migration

Problem Statement : Transaction 1 (T1) is intended to delete and subsequently insert few records to a table TB1. The business logic is like, this T1 should be open and not to commit as well until the end of delete followed by insert operation. ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Conditional Formatting Slider Range

In the Dashboard module, a conditional formatting range can be set on a calculated column in a Table visualization. For example, say I create a categorical color palette for conditional formatting on a % range in a table. The range of the conditio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Update multiple quick report connection strings

Need a way to quickly update multiple quick report connection stings at once. Update the current utility to allow multi select files, or select a directory (similar to action button migration) OR allow connection strings to be stored in a cell. 1 ...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 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 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Run workbench without Admin access

IBM Services team came over last year, and told RBC developer needs Admin access on their laptop, to customize MDM behavior. It's RBC policy not granting individual Admin access on his laptop. We come up with workaround. IBM consultant developed M...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration