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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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Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

HLOMAINT utility enhancement request

Today, HLOMAINT utility is not designed to find out what utilities are stuck or dead. To clean up those loader utilities, we run a SELECT * against HLOTB.HLOUSTAT table, review each utility, and run the HLOMAINT job to terminate the utilities one ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

No RECP state after abnormal termination with LOAD RESUME YES and no rows loaded

MR0729057126 DBDB2D/N04004
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -180 (invalid date/time) - add identifier for hostvariable.

When it comes to SQLCODE -180 (invalid value for date/time/timestamp) due to wrong data in an input-hostvarible currently DB2 issues following SQLCODE: SELECT * FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES WHERE CREATEDTS = ? Hostvariable holds 'SCHUBIDU' DSNT408I SQLCO...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Rollups in PAX set editor - For custom reports similar to Perspectives.

It will be useful for the PAX users if custom rollup/sum is available in PAX Set editor and it can be used in custom report as well without any issue. Currently we can use the SUM function in PAX set editor, but the moment exploration report is ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Jobs: add load dataset step

Ability to add a load dataset step to a job
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a function to allow a TI to be executed with user's security rights instead of the default Admin rights.

Create a function to force a TI to take security into account called in the prolog section The function could be similar to the one that allows TIs to overwrite locks (CubeLockOverwrite), which is called out once in the prolog section and modifies...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

"Add me to the Alert list" functionality missing in Cognos Analytics

With Cognos 10.2.x Users could subscribe to Alerts occurring in regards to Agents using the "Add me to the Alert list" feature in the More... Dialogue of an Agent. With Cognos Analytics this functionality can only be accessed if Cognos Connection ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration