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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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Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Features - Inactivity timeout for Planning Analytics as a Service - AWS

A customer using Planning Analytics as a Service on AWS wants to extend the inactivity timeout to 90 minutes. However, there is no option to do this in the Administration/Features section of PAW AWS version 2.0.99, unlike what is available in Plan...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Gateway property to allow customer configuration of large file threshold for allowing other gateways to pick up waiting files

Large files currently use a hard coded 50% of fragmentation setting to determine if they are eligible to move from the currently assigned Gateway to another Gateway that may be available for processing. This can have the effect of backing up large...
2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Sleep processor

A user's job is to stay in an asleep/hung state, which shows RUN on the LSF side. (due to some zombie process) On the LSF side, I would be nice to have, if the process is in a sleep state for 10 minutes and then kill/stop the process/job. Having a...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Allow customizing the alert email message (summary + description)

We send CP4D alerts by email and we would like to do a filtering by severity and component, maybe more variables. This allows us to prioritize our incident management and would be of great value.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration