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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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Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSO for REST API with Windows Active Directory accounts

We have automated work that would create/run Project and Deployment jobs. The automation is running using Windows Active Directory accounts but current the only way for the accounts to interact with REST API is to use the actual Username+Password ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Ability to set Frequency of Alerts sent for Database and Agent Critical Thresholds

Currently in the Administration area of Planning Analytics there the ability to set warning and critical thresholds and an on/off button for the alert. However an email is only sent ONCE. So as an example if the Disk Usage on your Server is curren...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period. - This has been discussed with Jason Sizto.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Need GSKTRACE tool to format binary GSKTRACE ouput ... similar to DB2 z/OS

We have enabled TLS on a db2 connect gateway SSL cipher specs (SSL_CIPHERSPECS) = TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 SSL versions (SSL_VERSIONS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ monitoring of raw disks

At the moment the Informix HQ product tries to monitor the storage using a "df -k" command This will not work though when Informix is running on raw disks.
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Option to delete backend PVC upon Storage Volume deletion

We would need to have an option to delete the back end Openshift PVC upon deleting the Storage volume from CPD UI. Based on our experience and the case I raised with IBM Support, looks like this doesn't happen now and PVC will still remain as is e...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration