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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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Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum LSF Standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning

IBM Spectrum LSF standard Edition does not support multi NIC VM provisioning using resource connector.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

db2caem should support 'SET CURRENT QUERY OPTIMIZATION = N'

For diagnostic of Db2 performance problems the tool db2caem can be very helpful. Especially if a particular query plan should be compared using different optimization levels. Using db2caem the optimization level must be specified by embedded opti...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Support for TLS 1.2 in Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Office 10.2 is built on the .NET framework 0.4. TLS v1.2 isn't supported by the .NET Framework 0.4. We require support of TLS v1.2.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gracefully handle table failures & send email alert

When a table fails due to structure or availability changes, the replication set should instead set the failed table to inactive instead of crashing capture. It should also send an email notification to alert of the issue.

Support more than one ReturnURL in namespace configuration for Okta (OpneID)

- Cognos environment with serveral namespaces (AD, Okta) - Cognos Administrators are members of AD and needes to logon to all namespaces to be able to add Okta-Users to Cognos-Groups and -Roles - Gatewayserver is configured to use only Okta-name...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replacing users on objects

Replacing users on objects: If someone leaves, how can I quickly reassign their objects and tasks to others?
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 3 Not under consideration

User Provisioning: Need 2 Levels of Adminstration

User Provisioning: Need 2 Levels of Adminstration in terms of user administration. All Admins cannot take advantage of the user access in the upgraded version of OpenPages.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Not under consideration