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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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Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Add and drop include columns to/from unique index as a pending change

To accomplish high availability for schema changes in a 24/7 environment, an addition of an Include Column to a unique index should be implemented as a pending change that is materialized by an online REORG. Dropping an include column from a uniqu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Access to SQL Performance Analyzer from CAE (Web Client)

If you use Db2 Query Monitor on TSO/ISPF and your company owns Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer(SQL PA), you can call SQL PA to “explain” the access path for the query. And, optionally, perform what-if analysis. Let’s have the same functionality for t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Q-Capture (on LUW) supports to use a dedicated MQ publish thread to perform all IBM MQ operations...

Currently, there is "parallel_mqthread" && "mqthread_bufsz" parameters, but it only used on z/OS. Cx hopes these features can support on LUW as well, which can specify whether the Q Capture program should use a separate thread to publish m...

Add an option allowing to clear recent list

We need an option that help us to clear all recents lists for users. Why : Because some times we need to update ou report shortcuts and users are still accessing the old ones. We've also experienced that installing new versions over existing cont...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Real time statistics (RTS) should include information about index traversal count

Application DBA's and developers use performance metrics, acess paths, object definitions and Real Time Statistics (RTS) when analyzing application perfomance. Information about FTB should be syncronized with other information about the index and ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration