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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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Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Allow batch export on non-BDI-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Allow Investigation on non-API-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Personalize PAW landing page after login

We would like the ability for administrator to easily define different PAW workbook for different users to land after login to PAW.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a date ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Documentation update regarding DataStage Roles and Capabilities

Every DataStage team in the world needs a quick reference to the DataStage roles/permissions/capabilities which is easily understandable and comprehensive at a glance. There isn't one in the manual, it's just a bunch of overly-complicated text. So...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Log/historic record of who lock or unlock a object

We do not have information of who and when lock or unlock any object in the Openpages GRC.(using the padlock near the object code/name)And that information is important to determine when and who make this kind of modification in any object to take...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Ability to exclude URLs in all Email Notifications

Within our organisation, a security based control is being introduced where any emails from internal systems used must not include any URLs. Within OpenPages there are hard coded notifications which we cannot modify such as workflow reminders, whi...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Please create current training material for Db2 administration

Please create basic training material for database administrators on Db2 that is easily consumable and free. A platform like EDx, Udemy, etc, would be ideal, but even on a proprietary platform would be acceptable.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release