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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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Job Management Functionality

The job management and scheduling component in the DB2 Data Management Console does not have the same functionality as it had in the Data Server Manager. A person can't edit a job that someone else created which makes it very difficult for a team ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

64-bit driver for MarkLogic

We need to be able to report on data that is stored in MarkLogic and requesting IBM to enhance the platform with 64-bit driver for MarkLogic.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Change position for group of widgets

In Planning Analytics Workspace Current behavior: When we group multiple widgets together, Changing the position for the group using properties the position assigned to all widgets inside the group not to the group position. Steps to reproduce: 1-...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Db2 z/OS (local capture): Adding subscription name in CHC0129I message. for Capture started task.

Hi Team We routed the messageCHC0129I to SYSLOG from the started task DC01TSC0 , but we are not able to see associated Subscription on the message CHC0129I, if we find the Subscription name along with the message CHC0129I it will be very helpful t...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Make hoover colors changeable when customizing theme

We want to change colors when hoover over buttons in Cognos Analytics: * background-color * foreground-color (= text color) * selectLine And we want to change colors for active buttons (when user has clicked on a button): * background-color is c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Kafka and S3 interfaces

Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for S3 (or other object storage services) Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for Kafka (furthermore, I don't even think Kafka is a supported connection type at all in CP4...
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release