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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Need to take a backup for database more than 50 GB size

Hi Team, We have a database that is more than 50 GB when we take a backup daily, but when we restore the backup, all the feeder files are deleted, and the feeder files start loading. Loading all the feeders takes a long time, more than 10 hours, w...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL Server is filling tempdb continuously without releasing the space.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. At present our CDC is not reading transaction logs which is backed-up using COMMVAULT and other third party tools, so we have used "Capture table-based c...
22 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL as a source should read transaction logs from third party tools like COMMVAULT.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. It is scheduled to take that backup after each 15 minutes. Our tool is not able to read the transaction logs from COMMVAULT. Also there is no feature in ...
22 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Calculate / Rebuild Option on PAW Action Button

PAfe Action buttons have the option to calculate only (without running a TI or Navigating), and within that they have the option to recalculate or rebuild (for dynamic reports). PAW Action buttons do NOT have this functionality. I have worked arou...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

CP4D Cartridge for ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise

Allow CP4D bi-directional access and connectivity to a full-fledged geographic information system (GIS) embedded as part of our data fabric and AI offerings. ESRI, who is the predominate GIS vendor, introduced a containerized flavor of their ArcGI...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Not under consideration

Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration