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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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CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
about 1 month ago in Db2 2 Submitted
506 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
12 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Give us better Tab Icons

Within the dashboard tool you can add icons to tabs. This makes a dashboard more visually appealing.However the included icons are awful.Some of the really bad ones include: a bee (probably useful for IBM but no other business) a bowler hat a spea...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Elasticsearch origin and destination should support proxy

Currently, when SDC is connected to SCH via proxy (Java options http.proxyPort/Host), Elasticsearch origin and destination still try to connect to the Elastic directly, ignoring proxy settings. https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/INT-3217 This...
6 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Provide an option to Disable users ability to use SUBSET Editor in a websheet that is being viewed in a PAW Book.

We have complicated websheets for data entry and we do not want users to be able to edit the SUBETS that are being used as drop down selectors from a SUBNM function.
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Engine Creation - permissions (Anywhere AAS)

Please do not restrict environment creation on Datastage Anywhere AAS projects to the person who created the engine. If that person is unavailable, we cannot create environments.
6 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Parameterize memory limit for service plc

Currently the only way to update memory limit for plc service is to edit Xmx value in script $PERF_TOP/4.0/etc/plc.sh. It would make it much easier to make that value a parameter which could be changed either under plc.conf or as an environment va...
6 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted