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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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dmctop - add interval and samples for background data collection

Like db2top, dmctop needs the capability to collect data using -i (interval in seconds) and -s (number of samples) when collecting data in background mode (-b).
over 1 year ago in Db2 / DMCtop 0 Not under consideration

Workspace | Add option to switch between Hierarchies

Dear IBM Ideas, We kindly request the addition of an option that allows users to conveniently switch between Hierarchies in a workspace workbook without requiring them to enter edit mode. Furthermore, we have encountered an issue when editing a di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Get back custom scale as it was in charts, zero suppress, custom maximum...

Graphical customization capability of reporting module had been improved as of release 11 but it is still well behind it was in 10.2.2, for example:- Bar charts do not allow the old option "stack 100%", it can be done by calculation but in that ca...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to join EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in IDAA

We have a lot of EBCDIC and UNICODE tables in production, and in many cases those tables would have to be joined to execute our operational analytic workloads on IDAA. Altering the objects to make it work is an option since many of those tables ar...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

What part of Db2 still requires 32-bit support?

While talking with Keri Romanufa at IDUG Philadelphia I was asked to enter this as an RFE to be checked on.During a Db2 LUW installation for pureScale on a 64-bit machine, which will have only(!) 64-bit executables, a lot of 32-bit libraries are r...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Add Capabilities tab to Data module's Properties like FM package has

We want to control which group has access to specific capabilities on a data module.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration