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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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UdBR copy between companies to copy all fields, also IC

We wanted to use UdBR to reverse some companies on a different company code in a journal. Copy data between companies with UdBR works, except for intercompany data, as only the field BOL is copied, but not the field URSBOL, containing the same cod...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) should be able to use a DB2 file as input from iseries

Very often a user gets a list of (hundreds or even thousands) similar changes to make. He gets the list of course in excel or text file and needs to type these in a green screen (5250 emulation). In Client acces there was a neat solution for this:...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Improve Cognos Analytics integration with Salesforce

Current state IBM Cognos Analytics ability to integrate with / pull metadata from Salesforce is extremely limited. Unable to select tables/schemas using new "Manage" administration functionality or create data modules using Salesforce data. Legacy...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add custom Kafka property to CDC to produce additional monitoring trails

We discovered that the producer instance for CDC is not being created inside the custom Kcop java class. It seems to be created internally by the application. However, this leaves us unable to add additional behaviors for CDC as a producer to Kafk...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC Capture Agent Data Source Db2 requires a functional RACF Userid and Password

In order to establish connectivity to the CDC Capture Agent data source (Db2) on zOS from the CDC Management Console via the CDC Access Server. This requires credentials which are a functional RACF userid and password. If the RACF password for the...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Display text data at aggregated data points within alternate hierarchies

Enable rules to display text across alternate hierarchy objects dragged into a PAX or PAW exploration view. Currently when the dimensionality matches the cube, text displays fine. As soon as you pull in an alternate hierarchy to nest amongst those...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration