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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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Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA for DB2 release migration step

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA in SDSNSAMP library for migration step 2: Verify the integrity of DB2 table spaces, of the DB2 11 Installation and Migration Guide. I opened a PMR 93407,122,000 for this problem. The number was flagge...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

With 64-bit execution mode enabled, no longer require 32-bit libraries

(Cognos 11.1.7 - on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Please consider removing the need for 32-bit dependencies in Cognos if the 64-bit execution mode is enabled. This is misleading if we enable 64-bit to try and run a more modern DQM version of Cognos, yet 32-bi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Namespace export to allow restore of individual users

This is a request to better protect User's data under the My Contents folders. Currently you can export all users but there is no granularity so that you can restore specific users that have an issue (It's all or nothing).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Selected reporting period should be more prominent

In the standard UI the reporting period dropdown was visible while looking at data. In the TF UI this is now hidden and it is easy for users to get confused about whether they are in a previous reporting period or not. Suggestion is to move this t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Option to Hide user Interface elements from App bar using URL commands

we want the feature such that we can hide the specified user interface elements from Cognos app bar by passing commands in the URL. I tried using the steps provided in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration