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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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Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

dashboard filter greater than or less than

on dashboard filter is it possible to add a condition > greater than, < less than or >= and <=Thanks
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 v11.5 Bind File and Package Name List

IBM published a technote "DB2 Bind File and Package Name List" https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21987465 listing all the names of the bind files of the different versions of Db2. It needs to be extended for Db2 11.5
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 7 Not under consideration

LInk to export JSON in Watson Assistant

One of our team members asked for this. Here's their request: ... I really miss the ability to export the JSON without having to go back to the skills page. There used to be an icon next to Try it that gave you that ability. I used that A LOT to m...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Integer Increment Function on Workflow

We are trying to use the Task Focused UI Workflow to increment an Integer field as an action on one of the stages. This is a common function usually handled via a Trigger. I can see that the increment Date field works with a set number of days. Th...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

DataStage MQ Connector does not support use of the userid and password under UNIX

We are trying to configure MQ Connector to connect to MQ Server using userid and password. Connection fails with "2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED". Connection works only without authentication. PMR confirmed we need to submit enhancement request to add n...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration