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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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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.

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Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web support for non-stable networks

In this age of the pandemic, more people are working from home, and are thus connected via networks that are not 100% stable. In Controller Web you tend to get an error message if the websock communication is broken, and then you will have to relo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

To find the latency breakdowns with the end to end with different components of CDC

We are trying to find the replication latency values for a subscription. We are seeing a value in the MC Performance tab for a subscription wherein we notice that it’s only the target latency value. And we would like to find the latency breakdowns...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cloud PA Workspace Display Bad Connection message

We have users at home (even at work from time to time) with bad internet connections and network issues. When using PAW the user just experiences slow set select, view refresh, page navigation etc etc... But this is seen as a product issue initial...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

JDBC driver parameter to compress LOB/XMLs to reduce network overhead

We have a JDBC application INSERT or UPDATING a LOB/XML column. Currently this can cause transaction slowness as the INSERT or UPDATE has to wait for the uncompressed LOB to travel across network.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Refresh table process needs ways to identify possible bootlenecks

During normal Mirroring in a subscription we have the ability to put it into monitoring and the console shows the activity and possible bottlenecks. But during refresh it's like a "black box". We have no way within the product to try to identify t...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration