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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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Offset function - similar as in SPSS Modeler

A function to access the previous value. Example: Col 1 Col 2 1 33 2 44 3 55 Offset value for second record in column 2 is 33. Offset value for third record in column 2 is 44.
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Request to make DATE2 standardization and comparison function work with FPF2

We are implementing Hybrid MDM for mastering customer demographics in virtual MDM and eventually storing it in Physical hub supplementing the persisted view with the customer consent information. Currently, we have the virtual MDM hub in live prod...
almost 8 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of “Log report - Import of External Data”

1) After importing flat files, when we preview the log report on discarded rows it would a lot more easier to find “problematic” row if not only account number was shown, but also its name (Account structure consists of more than 2k items, can...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Strong ciphers for port 1...

No description provided
about 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Remove Struts 1 from Platform Symphony

Our team uses Platform Symphony as a work load manager for IBM BigInsights. The product contains both version 1 and 2 of struts. While working to patch a security Vulnerability in the struts 2 jars we were told by our security team that struts 1 i...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration

Better performance of Java table routines

The existing Db2 interface for developing table functions in Java programming language is not designed for performance, because:(a) It requires a separate native (JNI, e.g. Java-to-C) call for setting each field value for each output row(b) It imp...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Software component version details in upcoming 7.2.0.2 release of spectrum symphony

We would like to make sure below versions of software components are included in Spectrum Symphony version 7.2.0.2 scheduled for release on Dec 1, 2017. JAVA IBM:Java SDK8: 8.0.4.7 WEBSPHERE:Websphere 8.5.5.11 or 9.0.0.4 WEBLOGIC:WebLogic 12.2.1.2...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Delivered

Allow the sum of Movement Accounts in Controller Web

The Movement Account is compsed of: 1) Main Account, and 2) Movement Extention. When creating the Movement Account we specify what is the main account summation for main accounts, and what is the movement ext summation for movement extentions. The...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alternative of Updating All or Changed Fields for SQL Update

When replication of SQL Update, only changed fields are updated now. The data consistency cannot be guaranteed if any changes are happened during the period of no replication is executed. All fields updating is required for SQL Update data replica...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

CDC for DB2 LUW recovering from database conditional locks

Recently one of the customers hit a conditional lock when reading from database log (with compression enabled) using DB2 read log api. Soon after this subscription failed without an ability to restart automatically. The conditional lock failure is...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration