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Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data traffic encryption

IBM Netezza Performance Server does not support data traffic encryption when Kerberos authentication is enabled. All data is sent in open text despite kerberos having the functionality to encrypt data transfer. This is a huge security gap that sho...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Unify the CASE package version number with CP4D refresh version number

We have too many version number in CP4D and its services. For example, CASE package version, Operator version, Operand version and Service version. Operator and operand versions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=planning-ope...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Please add the elements to 'LAST_REQUEST_TYPE' in the MON_GET_CONNECTION/MON_GET_UNIT_OF_WORK table function.

Please add the values from the following columns to 'LAST_REQUEST_TYPE' in the MON_GET_CONNECTION/MON_GET_UNIT_OF_WORK table function. (Please match the value of the STMT_OPERATION column in SYSIBMADM.SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT) CALL EXECUTE_IMMEDIA...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Please add the missing SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT columns to MON_GET_ACTIVITY.

1.SNAPSTMT administrative view/SNAP_GET_STMT table function is said to be replaced by MON_GET_ACTIVITY table function, but I would like to add the following columns because MON_GET_ACTIVITY does not have them. AGENT_ID STMT_TYPE STMT_OPERATION DEG...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Dynamic PDF Secure Password

Customers want to leverage the PDF Secure Password functionality but want the password abstracted away to stored in a database rather than hardcoded in the Cognos job or schedule.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Remove Limitation of article length in text to speech api

We are using text to speech service to transcode texts using the api. Unfortunately, the api limits the size of text to 5kb. Most of our texts have a size > 5kb. Please remove or adjust the maximum size of texts in order to make longer texts po...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 0 Future consideration