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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Java 17 Version of madapi.jar/InfoSphere MDM

Allstate has an AppFabric upgrade which includes Java 17 that we all need to complete for all of our Paas1 and 2 Services before end of Q3 due to compliance. Some of these Services call InfoSphere and therefore use the current version of the madap...
4 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

UI enhancement: adding Restart-options for CDC subscriptions without data

When the subscriptions failed, it always need customer to restart it manually. in banking environment there are too many subscriptions need to monitor and manage, even coding to management is also hard work, and it will impact real-time efficiency...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Restore database to another Db2 server with different endianness

My customer is using RHEL Big Endian Linux on PPC and Db2 10.5 which is end of support April 30, 2020. They have no option but to migrate to RHEL Little Endian. They cannot simply backup and restore the database and are looking at using Db2move wh...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration