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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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Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
6 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP index advisor and query rewrite function

Hi dear team, In current DB2 zAI SQLOpt component, we have recommendation only on AP. we wish index advisor and query rewrite can be added in recommendation analysis. Thanks Yuli
6 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP visualization ability and explanation on recommendation

Hi dear team, In current DB2 AI for z/OS SQL optimization component, we can check AP recommendations, with savings, and SQL statement etc. but it's not easy to understand AP detail with columns. can you please provide visualization ability on each...
6 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
3 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
about 1 month ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted
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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Future consideration

Allow Cognos Analytics use of the Microsoft graph API to require minimum privileged apis for OIDC integration

Cognos Analytics uses the Microsoft Graph API to resolve group names from their IDs via the following endpoint: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/getByIds Typically, this API requires the Group.Read.All application permission. However, in ce...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted