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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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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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Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create ASNMON Oracle Control Tables via GUI without Federated Server

We have QREP Data Replication established between DB2 Z/OS and Oracle on Linux. We are using Oracle Native Apply on the target DBMS. As per discussions and conclusions in the referenced PMR, 85301,442,000, we have 2 issues:1) We can not directly c...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Not under consideration

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Design canvas features for PAW sheets

At present, Planning Analytics Workspace allows the user to include design elements, such as images and videos, in reports, but the lack of several basic features of common design tools like Adobe Illustrator make it unwieldy to create highly-desi...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Pseudo IFCID 316

When using REOPT(ALWAYS) on a batch package to deliberately avoid filling the Dynamic Statement Cache (DSC) the SQL is, correctly, not inserted into the DSC and is not exrternalized by an IFCID 316. However this then "hides" the workload from moni...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Questionnaire Lifecycle configuration along with Additional Custom Stages.

We have several customer requirement to use custom Questionnaire Lifecycle Stages other than OOB 2-stage, 3-stage, 4-Stage. Client Details - Union Bank of Philippines (UBP) – Details are already there in Dev Collab - https://github.ibm.co...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 5 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IDAA V7: Add missing option to monitor IDAA appliance (HW error messages)

pain point: Currently there is no other way how to check appliance HW messages, than download trace (taking 3-5 hours) and check the trace or create new IBM CASE with the lab support and just wait. proposal: Add option how to issue basic monitorin...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration