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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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Enhance the Gateway Java API to include the ability to get and use a database connection in user exits

Publish a supported Java API that a customer implemented Gateway User Exits can get a database connection from. The database connection should be based upon the same database credentials as what the Gateway uses. The database connection should be ...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Submitted

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

When executing an ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION please do NOT invalidate dependent packages

ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION is described as an ONLINE schema change. However in our 24/7 environment with tables being used frequently around the clock we cannot execute ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION on our most heavily...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted
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Asymmetrical Views on Drill Through

Drill through only support traditional views. Can the functionality be expanded to include MDX views in the ReturnViewHandle?
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Planned for future release

Web based Dashboard/Adminisrator for InfoSphere CDC

The current CDC Management Console is Windows-only based which compulsorily requires a Windows machine. The availability of a browser based Dasboard/Administration interface will help is easy and better usage of the features. This feature can be i...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Add a feature to verify the model details for DoD

We recently encountered an incident where the DoD model was incorrectly mapped, resulting in an incorrect response and impacting the customer's production environment. Unfortunately, the error was only discovered after calling the Model API. (Case...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 2 Under review

CDC can not support ARM arquitecture from AWS EC2

IIDR CDC can't be executed on AWS EC2 instances if it's selected an instance with an AWS Graviton processors. This situation limit the family instances elegibles to be selected.
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Customizable ManagementHosts Resource group

I would like to request that IBM consider adding enhanced flexibility to the Multicluster SMC software by allowing the Management resource group to be customizable. Specifically, to have the ability to add a new resource group in addition to the s...
19 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Reset the DSC counters when doing EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL

We are running IFCID 318 and externalize the Dynamic Statement Cache regularly to DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE. For ease of use, we reset the counter by doing STOP and START of the IFCID 318 as described in the manual. The time from EXPLAIN STMTCACHE...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review