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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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Workflow Engine

CP4D has so many components that run simultaneously, however, the orchestration is not there. In Data & AI platforms there should be an orchestration framework that gives the ability to build and maintain workflows. Hence, we can automate the ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

System Audit log - Failed login attempts

The idea would be to add functionality to record failed login attempts in the system audit log in Cognos Controller. It would be beneficial to have this shown in the audit log because this would strengthen the security of the application and the p...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow DB2 to export data from a base table in normal state even if index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state

DB2 should allow exporting data from a base table (tablespace) in normal state even if the index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state (or other abnormal state). This would allow us to rebuilt the table without losing data.DB2 should also alt...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Running Total Aggregation in Crosstab

If I use a running-total calculation in a crosstab, I don't get the correct values on grouping level. i.e. I use dates as lowest level and group by calender weeks. In the summary rows for calender weeks I get the correct value for my running-total...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Option to disable implicit database creation

A new Zparm which disables the possibility to create the implicit created databases which was implemented in DB2 9.Database name e.g. DSN00001
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

TDF should support SSL/TLS LDAP. (Also known as LDAPS.)

Case: TS014229415 Opened September 2023. Closed as a future requirement (working as designed).
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration

Unable to Correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscriptions

We have many CDC subscriptions. When a specific subscription is experiencing latency issues, we would like to perform a packet/sniffer trace on the TCP connection but there is no way to correlate CDC ephemeral ports with specific subscription. We ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration