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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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do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support NetApp StorageGrid

Company is migrating object storage from EMC ECS to NetApp StorageGrid.
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

resizing the window

Annoying that SPSS keeps altering the Output window size and position after every analysis.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Functionality already exists

Capability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database

We must have the ability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database. This is very important as we plan the rollout of self-service reporting capabilities to our user community. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to distribute policies to specific catalogs

Today to have the capability of Policies and rules a user must purchase the Pro edition of Knowledge Catalog. What I anticipated was since I purchased Pro was, I would create a "dev" catalog, a "test" catalog and a "production" catalog. I would us...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Customer need Db2 pureScale to support RDMA on VMWare

As you know today Db2 pureScale run on VMWare only support TCP/IP for interconnect communication. VMWare claim that they support PVRDMA now. So customer need Db2 pureScale to certify and support RDMA on VMWare environment. The Sales Connect number...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Refresh all DVM's sharing the same map dataset

In multi-LPAR environments, we will have a single DVM subsystem running across more than one LPAR. When maps are created in DVM, we would want all instances of DVM that are sharing the same map dataset to be refreshed.
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Environment management

Production and non production environment management.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration