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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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Allow trusted context to accept CIDR notation

Currently the syntax to define a trusted context accepts only IP's . In view that microservices are deployed on Kubernetes infrastructures, the DBA has to add all the IP's of the different subnets. This is both cumbersome and laborious. The propos...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

During Credit Transfer Segment threshold check when using CT API, a negative acknowledgement (pacs002) should be generated and sent to the sender.

During Credit Transfer Segment threshold check when using MQ channel, a negative acknowledgement (pacs002) is generated and sent tothe sender. When we use CT API in the same flow, a negative acknowledgement (pacs002) is not generated.
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Historical Trend Analysis for Resource Usage in PROD and DEV Instances

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I am reaching out to propose an enhancement to the current capabilities of Planning Analytics, specifically around the visibility of resource utilization (RAM, CPU, and possibly disk space) across our environme...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Started task should be able dynamically update local time

At the moment the CDC started task only looks at startup what the timezone offset is. But when switching to summertime or wintertime the CDC started task doesn't change his timestamp. Having a subscription which uses the &TIMSTAMP to calculate...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Certify informix 12.10 on RHEL8

NEWS FLASH - the website now shows that 12.10.FC15 is certified on RHEL 8. This should be marked as completed. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements We need to stay with Informix 12 so that our compiled 4GL will con...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Copy and use full distributed stats available for federation from DB2 LUW to DB2 LUW

We use federation to check audit records on db2 blu and match then to financial record on Peoplesoft. All treatments are executed from financial DB (row organized), and pb is that nicknames do not take into account distributed stats nor colum grou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration