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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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Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Relative URLs within Dashboards

Relative paths in dashboards, as is possible in reports.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow Investigation on non-API-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
8 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted