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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Allow Parameterization of Port in Connection

If we could parameterize the port like all the string fields, we could easily use parameter sets to swap between servers/Dbs in dev/prod environment scenarios. Right now, you have to just use the parameter set and parameterize everything in every ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Being able to change the GUI language directly from the GUI

Currently Cloud Pak for Data uses the preferred language of the browser to choose the language of the User Interface. Several customers in Spain have shown dissatisfaction with the Spanish or Portuguese translation as it uses words that are not co...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Future consideration

Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration