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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Add Informix to HammerDB benchmarking tool

HammerDB is a leading benchmarking tool to benchmark database performance. This tool enables DBA to verify configuration of the OS/database and assess the impact of any hardware or database configuration changes. HammerDB supports DB2 however ...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Dashboard- Filter: Filter range option missing for dimensions

End users are unable to select a range of values while applying filter on certain dimensions.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

default sender per tenant (for schedules)

It should be possible to set the default sender per tenant (for schedules), not only for the entire server (set in cogconfig wiht the parameter "alwayUseDefaultSender" = true). For Subscritptions or the "run in background" function it should take ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA AOT support

We have data stage jobs (parallel) jobs, and applications that use Business Objects, that would like to utilize AOTs,Currently, AOTs are qualified by a schema name and a table name. This effectively prevents us deploying AOTs in data stage as the ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities. It would help in maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment. You currently has less to nothing as a tool to see all roles and capibilities. Ca...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - Azure [Datalake] Storage Connector - Support parallelism parquet format

From PMR it has been confirmed that: Parallel Read/write - CSV and Delimited only support parallel write operations, rest of all file formats do not support parallel read/write. Parquet format doesn't support parallel read/write It is not document...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Store auditing information directly in a table ( this option does not require files )

Allow DB2 to configure auditing to store auditing information in a table. Information could be retrieved using SELECT commands and there is no need to use system procedures or utilities like db2audit to extract information from files. The purpose ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration