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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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IKC Policy enhancement with AI

Extend the functionality of policies in CP4D by using AI to automatically propose actionable governance and protection rules based on a data governance policy. The current policy management feature in CP4D is limited to capturing a policy (or sub-...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Allow selection of a Planning Analytics subset for a Tree prompt's default

Currently, when I try to set a Tree prompt's default selection property to a subset in a Planning Analytics data source's dimension, it is not allowed. This behavior is not preferred... selection of a subset should be available.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Generate button For data time Fields

Required Generate button For data time Fields in all Message types,Example:for system Message xys.015 generate button for From Time(FrTm) Field.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

CDC (IIDR) - Support for Merge operations on Sybase

Adding MERGE support to the CDC Sybase engine will enable customers who use MERGE operations on Sybase to replicate the activity on target database engines. Currently MERGE operations are not guaranteed to be logged by Sybase in the transaction lo...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Oracle RDS as a source for CDC (to send data to ANY CDC target)

For AWS Oracle RDS, we do not have access for the OS so we dont have access to the redo/archive logs. We need CDC repluication tool be capable to read the Oracle transaction from RDS oracle as a source and replicate, in our case the target will be...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered