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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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allow the ability to generate REPLACE instead of RESUME YES

Sometimes you want to unload/load with REPLACE instead of RESUME YES. Need the unload utility able to generate LOAD REPLACE.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Change Management - copy then modify previously saved dialog

We are a new user of the IBM tools. I'd like the ability to copy the existing saved dialog and then modify it (change environments). If there is an existing way to do this or workaround let me know. Editing the dataset "user.ADMIN.SAVEDLGS" isn't ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill-through from hierarchy

We still have PowerCubes and would like to reuse them with dashboards. We have confirmed with support that it's not possible to drill through from a sub-level in a hierarchy in a dashboard. Previously, when we were using Analysis Studio, we set up...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Support for starting and stopping CP4D

I know that WKC offline backup is no longer supported in ver 4.6. In my environment, the "cpd-cli backup-restore quiesce" command was outputting an error for the wkc-foundationdb pod and cpd-cli was unable to stop CP4D. I am verifying development ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timeout) – Add STCK for Held Locks

At IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timestamp) please add a STCK for the held lock (blocker) when the lock was granted. In case of a lockout with this STCK the sequence of the locks, and so the sequence of the blocker-SQLs, can be reconstructed ‘post mor...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IIAS-only connector ( like as Netezza)

Nowadays, we should use "db2 connector " when we develop job in IIAS ( IBM Integrated Analytics System)So they want to use 'IIAS-only connector' like as Netezza connector. If we have no plan for IIAS-only connector then they want to separate DB2 a...
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support R-Studio data files: *.rdata, *.rda

The people with strong skill level of R-Studio are in the clients. They use R to prepare data and display the result with charts. Now they are searching for some great BI tool to show up the analysis result, but they still can use R to prepare data.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration