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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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Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

"System Migration-->Import configuration" available as a method from the REST API level

"System Migration-->Import configuration" available as a method from the REST API level Why?1.it will fit into the idea of ​​a fully automated "Change Management" process with all the checks and acceptances required in this process 2.we would a...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
18 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted
506 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support to Geometry type field to Oracle Database

the advancement of analytical projects involving geographic data and computer vision, the customer need to replicate geometry data from Oracle to later work on their analytical repositories.
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Upload PDF Files in PAW / PAfE

In TM1 Architect there is the option to upload PDF files via “ Right-click on an existing application -> Add file...” to upload PDF files. These PDF files can then be downloaded via TM1 Web or via Perspectives. We could not find a way in PAW or...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1