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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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Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PASS to support Vertical Text Format

In Excel, there are many instance we need to use vertical formattinng, detail can refer to here: https://turbofuture.com/computers/Tutorial-MS-Excel-How-to-write-text-vertically-or-at-an-angle-in-an-Excel-sheet#:~:text=Click%20on%20a%20cell%20and,...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support of encrypted fields by Anonymization API

OpenPages 8.0.0.1 introduced the capability to anonymize data through a set of API methods. These methods do not work on encrypted fields, meaning that there is currently no way to anonymize data if it is stored in fields that are encrypted.When s...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Not under consideration

Auto restart of CDC subscription upon a failure on Kafka target

The CDC kafka connector dies whenever a partition leadership changes for a topic. This is an ongoing function of Kafka and could happen during•Rolling broker restarts (to upgrade or update a config value)•A change of controller•Normal cluste...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

PAW - ability to execute chores / processes while not in edit mode

Ability for a user to not be in edit mode, and execute a chore / process (subject to security)
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists