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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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Storing Large Objects in file sytem

Feature similar to Oracle "bfile" data type. Store the large object in file system.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Automate SSL certificate refreshing after CP4D self-signed certificates are renewed (Db2, DV)

I think the SSL certificate refreshes for Db2 and Data Virtualization described below are about internal CP4D communication. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=tddw-updating-db2-ssl-certificate-after-cloud-pak-data-self-si...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Improvements for Automatic Runstats

Auto-runstats (AR) is invoked by health monitor on a fixed timer, each timer 7500 seconds (approx . 2 hours) apart. AR consists of "iterations". In each iteration, AR evaluates tables/views one by one. If a table is deemed needing stats, AR will i...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

CDC Replicating DATA of VIEW from MAINFRAME to DISTRIBUTED

I have a requirement where we want to replicate data of a view to AIX side. I am attaching VIEW DDL is it possible with the help of CDC to achieve replication to AIX table View on mianframe is as follows CREATE VIEW PPSDB01.EXPR_PAL_ADDR AS SELECT...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New Routing Rules Screen in Internet Explorer does not work properly

The new Routing rules screen does expand well in Internet Explorer it works with FireFox which is not our standard browser the screen collapses and it's not friendly. see attached screen shots
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Need Pull down for Attribute values in filters. (Like you have pull down for levels)

Need Pull down option for Attribute values in filters. You can select Attribute for filtering. But you do not get presented with a list of choices. ((Like you have pull down for levels). Easy and useful enhancement
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Only add and synchronize wanted columns

Following TS014727232 At the present time, we are obliged to add the whole table instead of the few columns we really want.
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

IIDR offical release for REHEL 8/9

Already RHEL 7.X announced end of support Q2 -2024 so need to upgrade the servers
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration