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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Protection way for prevent an existing BU from numeric to consolidation level

Is there a way to set up safeguards to prevent an admin from accidentally adding a new business unit (e.g., 211A) under an existing numeric business unit (e.g., 211) in the business unit dimension? Currently, if the new business unit (211A) is dra...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

FAP Client notifications when Data mart goes down due to an error.

Real life example, date mart stops working at 18:00. The next day you check the data and notice that they don't match. The cause turns out to be that Fap Cline has stopped working. It would be very helpful to add notifications when Data Mart goes ...
almost 3 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Functionality already exists

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

TLS encryption for IBM InfoSphere Data Replication Event Server

We do have a requirement to have TLS encryption to and from Linux replication engines with Access & Event Server versions. We're able to do the encryptions in IIDR Access Server but from Access Server unable to connect IIDR Event server as its...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Provide capability for SLB Utility to timeout when HSM does not respond to backup request.

Currently the SLB utility sits in a wait state until ackowledgement of the backup request is returned from HSM. During this time a lock SYS_PITR is is held that prevents any DFDSS activity by Db2. This can lead to Db2 thread failures and data inco...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration