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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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Add Booth Ticket Manager to Pacemaker/Corosync package in Db2

With V11.5, Db2 is now able to use PaceMaker & Corosync to provide cluster resource management. But missing is the Booth ticket manager. From RedHat "The Booth ticket manager is a distributed service that is meant to be run on a different phys...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Request for re-try / reconnect mechanism

We'd like to request Replication to have re-try / reconnect mechanism even without MQ multiple instances. Because currently it doesn’t support MQ multiple instances, we can use SLB, but if it has no re-connect, we can do nothing.

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Grouping tables

I would like to have the ability to group tables importes into a new Data module. This would be equivalent to the yellow folders in FM.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Filter on expressions

In Data module it would be nice to ba able to filter a table on a condition rather than tapping checkboxes. Eg. year(Invoicedate) between year(getdate())-2 and year(getdate())
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Encrypt PEM file for PAW

Currently, the pa-workspace.pem, while base64, is in an unencrypted format. Since this file contains the private key for the certificate, it can be vulnerable to back actors. When a company's wildcard certificate is used in the PEM file, the risks...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User welcome mail

When adding a new user to CPD we have to provide a mail address and a default password to create the user. After that, we have to send the username and the password to the user on another way. It would be nice to automatically send a welcome mail ...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration