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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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Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Allow IET changes to be reflected in System Audit Log

Currently, in System Audit Log the user can view executed changes in Investment Elimination Template (IET) only in function 'Consolidation with Status'=>Acquisition Elimination. There is no other function in System Audit Log which allows to sel...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Subscription maintenance in flight as add table, table error, set full refresh flag and etc.

We are testing CDC for DB2 z/OS as mainly producer of data replication to another CDC engines as kafka and oracle, so to much cdc admin issues is happening here, for example: when just one table of subs receives a error the entire subscription is ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

User can access and create the new connection in projects page without platform connection access.

A user with Data Steward Role has only certain/limited privilege's in the ICP4D console, in that platform connections is one of that where user doesn't have access to create a platform connection in the ICP4D system perspective. In that case when ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

User able to create Duplicate connections in Projects Page.

Whenever user logged in to ICP4D console, in projects area when user try to import a connection for the first time it'll have proper connection name associated with it. Again the same user/different user who has access to the same project which we...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Monitoring VPN Tunnel performance

As a Client using IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (hosted) we would like the ability to monitor performance, stability and connectivity of our IPSec VPN tunnel. This does not appear to be possible as a client self service capability with the current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Generate button For data time Fields

Required Generate button For data time Fields in all Message types,Example:for system Message xys.015 generate button for From Time(FrTm) Field.
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

job select statement improvement

I have hosts with exclusive resources and some with a dynamic resource. A few hosts have two exclusive resources. The job submit: $ bsub -R 'select[ defined(res1) || (defined(res2) && dynamic_pool==loaner_host)]' I would expect this job to...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration