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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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Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Make Picklists Case Sensitive

Currently picklists in Planning Analytics are only case sensitive when directly inserting values into cells. When copy pasting values the picklist becomes case insensitive. This led to errors in some of our tools which are based on our TM1 databas...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Extend Cognos SDK product documentation by information about SSL configuration

After freshly installing Cognos Analytics a custom java program using the Cognos SDK stopped working (SSL error)The product documentation provided no hints to what the problem could be and how it can be resolved. Neither did it explain the correct...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Unable to connect from IIS Datastage to MDM Connector at secure port 443

Secure port connectivity is necessary
27 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

The ability to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons

This is a requirement to have the ability to to create custom button of our own – mimic Cognos buttons. For example - Suppose I want to place a run as background button on the HTML output page so that users dont have to go to report path and do ru...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
9 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Submitted