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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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Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

make FS/Db2 generate some good remote execution plans against big Mongo collections

Problem statement/pain points - refer to what elaborated in TS012101437 for details *for multi-way joins (>2), FS/Db2 currently always generate bad remote SQL execution plans involving full scan of some large collections w/ no filters pushed do...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Future consideration

Selected reporting period should be more prominent

In the standard UI the reporting period dropdown was visible while looking at data. In the TF UI this is now hidden and it is easy for users to get confused about whether they are in a previous reporting period or not. Suggestion is to move this t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Relative Aliases for Forecasting

We are using the Basline Forecast to produce a 17 week production forecast. Every 3 weeks we re-forecast the 17 week period after reloading historical actuals. To minimize the maintenance each time we run the forecast, we have aliases on our week ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Possibility to execute STARTQ command with "CAPTUREUPTO" option

In high workload environments it would be very useful to let QCapture work on a STARTQ command with predefined end. Currently this can be done by a STARTQ command and after the SendQ is active a subsequent STOPQ with captureupto.But if for some re...
11 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Zabbix support

Allow for Zabbix agent to be officially supported on the platform to have integrated monitoring of all systems in the company including CPDS.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Add record count on the tabbed group grids

It would be great if the user could see a count against every grid in a tab group so they can easily identify which ones have data. This would prevent them from wasting time clicking on each grid one by one.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Saved window sizes should be sanity-checked when opening

User opens a dataentry form in Excel and clicks to open the Intercompany popup. A window is opened and visible in the taskbar, but the user cannot access it in any way (but it can be closed funny enough). When unticking the 'Save window size' opti...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Allow admin user to monitor & cancel queries being run by other users

Users can initiate queries to fetch data that could result in long running queries which might use a lot of CPU time and affect the overall performance of the system. Only the user who initiated it can cancel the query. Need an enhancement to prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration