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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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ENH: Add ability to save the state of frozen column/row headers between report runs

When running an HTML report in Cognos viewer there is an option in the context menu to freeze the row or column headings. These options need to be selected every time a report is run. For reports where the user always has to scroll a lot and consi...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Migration of the database tables to be completed in less than 2 hours

As per the TCH mandates that are coming on April 1st, the installation and migration with any new release needs to be < 4 hours. While the deployment scripts can be parallelized to gain efficiency and be completed in <2 hours, the DB migrati...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Oracle-style isolation level 3 (multi-version read consistency) locking.(RIMS)

A description of Oracle's 'multi-version read consistency' can be found here: http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/10locking.html. Even DB2's most liberal CS isolation is more strict then this. [update 04-27-2009]: Support for isolation level 3 queries t...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Capture CP4D UI Configuration and Deployment Responses - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

I am working with an IBM team implementing CP4D across a large industrial enterprise for both operational and business use cases. I have advocated using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like RH Ansible to provide consistency and stability across...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

FR583: Enhance IFCID 316 to capture stats of UDFs as well

When the following dynamic SQL query is issued, processing the query involves processing a UDF. This works fine. However, when looking at SQL dynamic statements stats in a DB2 monitor, which retrieves IFCID 316 data from DB2, the data provided is ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support IIDR reads from Secondary Volumes of Global Mirror

Support IIDR Capture reading from secondary volumes of Global Mirror.The customer uses IMS FP function for core banking systems. The customer is planning IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS(IIDR) as the next DR solution instead of IMS RSR.  As...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

The Spark job should use the mount_path attribute of the storage volume by default

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
almost 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

PureScale high ports statically defined

We require consistent and specific ports to be used for PureScale inter-member communications. It would be ideal if this can be configurable. Currently PureScale requires us to open all high ports >=1024, as per documentation https://www.ibm.co...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Command line for IA Console remove/add data source

In support of IA project metadata supporting data rules we schedule weekly imam imports for sources which are data sources for the IA project. There are occasions when the imam changes do not propagate and cannot be viewed when inspecting the sche...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 2 Delivered