IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    Parallel log file archival and retrieval

    Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

    There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

    Improve usability of CodeBlock creation in GUI Tool flow

    When writing a CodeBlock in the Tool flow through the GUI, it is difficult to know the correct syntax. For example, a declaration such as @tool(name="") is required, but this is not obvious to users. It would be very helpful to display sample code...
    5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

    CCDC replication should be restarted when an unexpected error occurs.

    We are suffering with an issue where CCDC replication stops for unknown reasons. It has been almost two years since we opened the case TS014238021, but we still don't know the cause. An APAR PH65595 has been opened for this issue, but no PTF has b...
    7 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Under review

    Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

    Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
    over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

    Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

    Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
    12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

    Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

    The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
    almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

    If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

    Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

    Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

    Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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