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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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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...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Show more job details like in Datastage Director 11.7

Would be great to see if a job is scheduled, what the schedule is, etc. from one screen like we can in 11.7
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Watson Pipeline - Allow dragging flows onto canvas

It is tedious to go into a flow node a bunch of times one at a time. On 11.7 we can just drag flows onto a sequence. This is a major time drag on CP4DAAS.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Specify Drill Target Report format when drilling from Dashboard

In Cognos Analytics 11 when drilling through from a Dashboard visualization to a Report want to have the option to select the target report format.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Gather performance statistics for DB2 Stored procedures (of various types)

We have many thousands of stored procedures in several Datasharing groups. If we identify one that may be unused, before we remove it, we want to research and ensure that it is not used anywhere. We want to search a database for instances of this ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Multilingual support for objects in Workspace

<As-Is> Currently, objects such as folders and books in Workspace are not compatible with multiple languages, so it is not possible to realize a mechanism that is compatible between Japanese-speaking users and English-speaking users. In ad...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export files REST API Call for Script Automation

We need export file/package REST API call for script automation but there is no call related to that in this reference cognos REST API doc - https://dhcsdevtestcog.ca.analytics.ibm.com/api/api-docs/#/ Impact in our promotional process automationfr...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

LDAP for MC - Support authentication through sAMAccountName and for MS ActiveDirectory DC as LDAP Server

In our environment we typically login to Active Directory with our sAMAccountName. By default the LDAP.properties file has authUserIDAttribute as CN but the CN does not look like our usual username (or sAMAccountName). As of now sAMAccountName is ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS along with support for 9.x

RTM support for MySQL 8.4 LTS support along with support for 9.x when the first LTS version is available (for both on-prem and Azure)
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release