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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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.

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PLANNAME and PROGNAME in error-message if PROGAUTH(ENABLE) error

Hi When a program fails e.g. with reasoncode 00F3003B, I want to see in the error message, which row DB2 tried to find in SYSIBM.DSNPROGUATH, i.e. I need program- nad planname.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add multiple widget connections to one dashboard object

we need to be able to assign to one data object multiple connections not just one like today to be able to setup more complicated interactions similar to gestures in active reports
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration

Db2 for z/OS: Change SETCURRENTVERSION via Reorg

Now, the Repair Utility with option SETCURRENTVERSION has to be used, to change all v0 tables to the highestVersion. Unfortunately this action is not concurrent. It would be better to have the the opportunity to do that with an online reorg.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow to access a database during a pause in a roll forward

During a roll forward, it will be helpful to access the database in read mode in order to identify the point where to open the database. If it is not the desired point, then apply more logs, until find the desired point.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this vi...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to turn off zooming in vizualisation 11.1x

My users are driving crazy with the vizualisation zooming. When several vizualisations are in a report, the zooming takes precedence over scrolling down. Just add an option to turn off this zooming in vizualisation properties. Thanks for my users.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automated reports emailed to user

Controller currently requires users to login and run reconciliation reports. Users have requested the ability to add some automation to this process so that the reconciliation report is sent by email.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration