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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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Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow passing "Extra Data" item on drill-through definition from 11.1 Visualizations

User wants to see [Product Line] in a visualization so that users see the name of the product line. For performance purposes, we want to pass [Product Line Code] on drill-through. Currently the only way to do this is to nest the dimensional inform...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow functional admin users to create or update existing chores without ADMIN rigth

Avoid functional administrators to be able to update the codes (TI processes, cube rules, security) by removing the ADMIN right but by doing that, functional admin are not anymore able to update/create chores, which is very important in their acti...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Space Optimization tasks monitoring

When running storage optimizations tasks (compress, repack, shrink, defragment) there is no way to monitor the progress of the task. If the table involved is a huge table, this task could run for several days and there is no way to know the task s...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Capability to modify the top filter bar and font and name in widgets

From our Cognos user feedbacks: we would like to move the top filter bar to the right side of page, plus change the size of filter bar(took to much space on the page). We also need to modify the column name or fonts in each widget. Since the model...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Report Reference and Layout Component Reference

Both the Layout Component Reference and the Report Reference functionality in reports have limitations that prevent report authors from leveraging previously developed content. I would like to see these enhanced so that authors do not need to rede...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
6 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Remove an alias from a subset

The TI function SubsetAliasSet can be very useful. But what if we want to remove the alias from the subset and just return principal names ? Is this function/possibility missing ? Can't we reuse the last argument in SubsetAliasSet, supply an empty...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration