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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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Stop package invalidation after ALTER MAXPARTITIONS

These days in an agile world we have to ALTER PBG spaces on-the-fly to raise the MAXPARTITIONS value. Sadly this ALTER, even though it is an immediate ALTER, sets all dependent packages to VALID = 'N' which is, of course, a disaster.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Support Apache Ozone for the Generic S3 Connector stage

We would like for Datastage to be able to read/write to an Apache Ozone object store on a Cloudera Data Private 7.1.9 cluster using the S3 protocol (as specified in the support case TS012329373)
5 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add ability to specify no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings

Currently, there is no easy way to add no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy-settings It requires modifying a proxy-envs.json and...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Similar to Unix/Linux CLI to access Storage Volumes on CP4D

Currently on on-prem environment, We use Unix environment to place all the DataStage supporting files and we perform multiple actions on the files, using Unix commands like AWK / SED / CHMOD / Housekeeping Script Creation etc., . As we moving to C...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Ability to Disable/Enable a Process within a Chore without removing it

It is time consuming when you want to not have a process run in a chore temporarily, to first go in and remove it from the chore, then secondly return later and lookup up the process from a long list of processes to reinstate it and then lastly mo...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted