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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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Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

Throttle writes during chunk creation

When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Log DRDA listener messages to online.log similar to current logging of the SQLI listener.

The DRDA listener (drsoctcp) is not logging any error messages to the online.log. The SQLI listener (onsoctcp) does log messages when, for example a wrong username is being used to connect to the instance: 15:45:00 listener-thread: err = -951: ose...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add capability to input URL to local Mapbox server

For sites that are in closed networks, that have no internet connection there is an error when using mapping that goes to Mapbox. We would like to have the ability to define the Mapbox server location to be able to use this functionality.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Unwanted blinking in PASS login page

The assembly of TM1Web (PASS) page login has been changed in the latest version (experienced when upgrading from 2091 to 2097). In case user has (possibly) slower network connection, he sees window for TM1 login for approximately second while all ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) in Cognos Analytics

Customer would like to increase network packet size to Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000), but, there doesn't seem to be any information relating to how this would impact Cognos. From a Cognos applications perspective, this should not have any impact.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add BlackBerry wrapper to Cognos Mobile app.

Our company utilizes the BlackBerry wrapper on mobile apps to give them access to our internal network. We do not use VPN on mobile devices. We would like IBM to wrap the Cognos Mobile App with the BlackBerry wrapper.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

enhancement of behavior of common data download in hybrid environment

With current design, when SIM fails to download common data due to network error or any other problem, SIM will hang there and does not sense the error at all. This error is quick common in hybrid environment these days. For example, we've grids o...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration