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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Ability to access Cognos Administration through a specific URL only

An additional option is requested to access IBM Cognos Administration through a separate Gateway URI only. Currently access to IBM Cognos Administration can only be restricted by capabilities.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Synchronizing two head nodes in grid environment

In order for Walmart to run their Grids, 24x7x365 the are implementing multiple head nodes for the same grid. That way if a 6 hour patch comes in, they can take one head node down, patch it, bring it up, and then do the other. In all they lose onl...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

PAW object that shows content of simple text file, e.g. logfile

An PAW GUI object that can show the content of a simple text file stored as Application in the Externals data folder or as file reference the local disk or UNC path. The simple text file could be a smaller logfile, output from a TI process or prop...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

REORG DISCARD support writing a spanned record

Running a REORG DISCARD on a user tablespace with LONG VARCHAR message :- DSNU297I - COMPOSITE RECORD SIZE TOO LARGE FOR.......... is received.BTW, UNLOAD without 'NOPAD', the problem occur; whetheras, with 'NOPAD', the problem doesn't occur.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Discovery fall out queues for generating new terms

When doing discovery and mapping the terms many of the fields can't be mapped to a term. It is not a matter of AI not doing its job but there is no appropriate term. This applies to the ones that have no term assignment During the discovery proces...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Enable reconnect (retry) option for the Oracle Connector and DTS stages

From case#TS003645436 In the Oracle Connector stage the reconnect/disconnect properties are only available when the Oracle Connector is used in conjunction with the Lookup stage (as reference) or as a target. Is there a way to enable these propert...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Only process the Partitions that a Table is in when reading log records in a DPF environement

We have Tables that are only defined in certain partitions but when we restart a subscription CDC is asking for log records for partitions that do not contain the Table. This causes to have to restore old log files that are not needed for the Tables.
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

DB2 trace accounting records constraint filter by contents

My customer needs to gather SMF101 performance record to obtain stored procedures performance metrics. This is very important for them in order to deploy a DB2 stored procedures in production so they can effectively troubleshoot performance issues...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration