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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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Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

We need ability to update DB password using command line in non-interactive fashion. (Not interactive shell)

We need to update our database account password regularly and in turn we have to update password in database configuration file datasource.xml . This will be automated process in Wells Fargo and we need to be able to run dbconfig.sh command to upd...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Detailed Log Files

One of our customers wanted to be able to track which IP the transactions were made from the logs, but we found out that this was not available. This could be very useful. Because if a username is used by more than one user, it is not enough to se...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Configure Waston Assistant extension timeout

Watson Assistant custom extensions (specified with an OpenAPI json file) timeout after 30 seconds. It would be nice to configure a longer timeout, at least if WA is running on on-prem hardware instead of IBM's cloud service.
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

JSON files generated by GNM for functions

The JSON files generated by GNM for functions such as NAME_MATCH_WHY_JSON, GNR_ORG_WHY_JSON and EDIT_DISTANCE_WHY_JSON are flat structured with all the data parameters at the same level. There is an issue with the root/tree structure of the JSON t...
9 months ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 1 Under review

Enable long path support (more than 260 characters) in spectrum symphony product

Enable long path in spectrum symphony product since its now enabled only 260 characters Issue details as below Background – CITI MQA team is looking to enhance the functionality which required our package to compile and build DLL files during run ...
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Delivered