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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Need to take a backup for database more than 50 GB size

Hi Team, We have a database that is more than 50 GB when we take a backup daily, but when we restore the backup, all the feeder files are deleted, and the feeder files start loading. Loading all the feeders takes a long time, more than 10 hours, w...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL Server is filling tempdb continuously without releasing the space.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. At present our CDC is not reading transaction logs which is backed-up using COMMVAULT and other third party tools, so we have used "Capture table-based c...
3 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL as a source should read transaction logs from third party tools like COMMVAULT.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. It is scheduled to take that backup after each 15 minutes. Our tool is not able to read the transaction logs from COMMVAULT. Also there is no feature in ...
3 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Automatic restarts of TM1WEB service

When 100% of heap space is exhausted, TM1Web service is unavailable and only IBM Support or SRE team can restart the service to free some memory. It means we have to open a ticket to IBM Support each time the issue happens and the issue cannot be ...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace repair of mongo database

Problem Description It seems that when objects are deleted from PAW the underlying mongo database does not release the disk space no longer required. In order for the size of the Mongo database to be reduced, a custom repair command needs to be r...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DataStage Flows View in IKC project need to control based on User Role and Project purpose

Please note this is an extension of previous idea - CPDIDEAS-I-2331 ( IBM Ideas) Need IKC Project User View (or access) restrictions based on DataQuality, DataStage and Metadata harvesting purpose. Proposing 3 kinds of Project Views - IKC project ...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
2 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Date Format for Scheduling Chores

Currently the scheduling of chores can only be configured in the US date format of MM/DD/YYYY. Would it be possible to also configure the PAW server to use another date format of DD/MM/YYYY?
24 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Easy way to update oracle user password after password rotation

Currently updating password and saving the configuration CDC takes a lot of time as there are lot of validation doen backend even though only password is changed.Understand any change in the tool will trigger entire validation and very much depend...
22 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release