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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Excel 2016 in cognos cloud link instead of excel 2013

Upgrade from Excel 2013 to 2016 (when using cognos controller link)
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent Login with Single Account [OWASP Top Ten 2013 - A2]:

Improper Session Termination When a user logs out of the application or closes the application window, the corresponding session is not destroyed on the server. This allows a client-side session identifier to reactivate a session that the user in...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to add Excel 2013 as an output type in Run Report Options

When running a report, we currently have Excel 2007,Excel 2007 (data), Excel 2002 as report output formats.Customer is expecting a new format: Excel 2013 to be added to these report output types. note: I have raised this request on behalf of custo...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Cognos for Microsoft Office interface for Microsoft Office 2013 SDI

With the change of Microsoft Office interface from MDI to SDI in Office 2013 the Cognos for Microsoft Office panel will automatically appear in a new instance of Office when an existing instance of Office is open with the panel already open.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add the feature to map bigint type to the derived expression (Source: IBMi, Target: CDC Kafka)

We have a column in a table defined as BIGINT. We are adding the replication of it. As part of requirement, the old value of the column is also needed. Would be easier to do via %BEFORE(column_name). But this throws a message "RA MSG 2013 Derived ...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Matrix - Visual Studio 2013 Support

Our development team has moved to Visual Studio 2013. However, during the DE Client install, VS2013 is not recognized when the wizard prompts to install the VS toolkit. VS2010 is the last version noted as being supported.
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Delivered

DB2 automatic client reroute with pass tickets

The scenario involves pass tickets and automatic client reroute. We have a PMR 86086 442 000 with more details. The response to the PMR indicated that the application needs to be modified to handle the error by reconnecting with a new pass ticket....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

LSF support for Python 3.5/3.6

Per Danny Cooper, "The current LSF 10 libraries for Windows were built with VS 2013; applications compiled with VS 2015 are not compatible." Danny has advised us to continue using Python 2.X. C/C++ libraries for use with Python 3.5/3.6 must be com...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered