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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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CDC Forced Stop on Log Deletion

I am writing to request an enhancement in the CDC (Change Data Capture) functionality to include a forced stop mechanism when logs required by the XStream API are deleted. Currently, CDC continues to wait for logs from the XStream API, which resul...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

IFCID 365 - Set variable QLSTNTLS to -1 for unknown.

TLS/SSL Used Number of connections from the remote site that were configured with SSL and AT/TLS support. This value is meaningful only at the server. (Field name: QLSTNTLS). We are reporting on this field and are seeing some values of 0 for conne...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow list IP addressed that can access Planning Analytics SaaS

I would like to have the possibility to whitelist IPs that are allowed to use PA AWS rest api. This would be needed so that nobody can use the rest api from anywhere if they have apikey. I am having problems with the customers as they expect the p...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
6 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Additional Reminders - Leading to the work

It would be helpful if IBM can send 1-2 additional reminders to the client with relation to Scheduled Maintenance Notification.
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Request to modify the default command for automatic statistics update to allow user customization

I have worked on case TS017430261. Please allow users to modify the default runstat syntax used for auto runstat at the database level or schema level, not the set profile per table.
6 days ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Submitted

Support local authentication method to manage credentials on DB2 using Hashicorp Vault

Customers who are using local authentication for Informix need a way to utilize the password management features for Hashicorp Vault https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/secrets/databases/db2
11 days ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted