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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.

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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ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE not detected by IIDR QREP or CDC

If 'ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE' is executed against a table that is actively replicating, any changes made to the source data will not be captured or replicated until ‘ALTER table DATA CAPTURE CHANGES' is executed. This would cause the target...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Populate Data Tray with FM Package Data

Expand Data Tray Scope to include data from FM packages. Right now it is difficult to debug data/model issues in Dashboarding.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cloud Events Data format support for Mainframe event streaming

Cloud Event ( https://cloudevents.io/ ) is an industry standard format that supports Open Telemetry based distributed tracing by default Please use trace & span along with timestamp linked logs, metrics for proper linkage of errors to particul...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Proper RACF Group based security policies with fine-grain role permissions

In enterprises, different employees perform different roles and they move across teams or have organisation changes. Current IIDR CDC product doesn't support proper RACF based group policies which means when a new user joins or leave a team, vario...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Observability Improvements inline with cloud principles and SRE capabilities.

Current IIDR (CDC) needs CHCCLP to be run periodically to pull the monitoring metrics and use IIDR (CDC) Management Console for monitoring visualisation which is 80's or 90's era thinking. At enterprises, we use different observability tools and w...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

E-Mails via REST API instead of SMTP

We are currently using IBM Cognos Analytics and have configured an SMTP server (including account and password) under Local Configuration > Data Access > Notification in the IBM Cognos Configuration. The SMTP server receives all emails, chec...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

JDBC gateway change of mount point

During unmounting the zfs and remounting it on to another path we have lost Data sources, we would like this to not happen.
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Edit Data Set Filters While in Design Mode

Currently, when you want to edit filters on a data set this can only be done when in Preview mode. If the data set is very large, it can take several minutes for the data to preview. If you want to edit the filters, they are not visible until the ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration