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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

No Web server Monitoring for Planning Analytics

We don't have visibility about Web Servers performance, and it would be good to have more information about memory consumption (at least).
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow Transformer To Run In 64-Bit Mode

Allow transformer to run using 64-bit dispatchers. Note that this not a requirement for transformer to take advantage of any extended functionality 64-bit might entail. We simply want transformer to run within a Cognos Analytics environment having...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flexibility to Make Attributes Searchable After Creation in Match360

Currently, in the Match360 data model, an attribute can only be designated as searchable during its initial creation. Once the attribute is created and published, it cannot be altered as a searchable attribute. This lack of flexibility restricts t...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Enable UUID as a column type, and generation of UUIDs

As we are moving towards more microservices on Z, and more interaction with cloud services, where UUIDs are much more used, we see a growing need for saving and generating UUIDs on Z. We therefore propose that UUID be made a column type in DB2. Th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Purge Application Text Records from Deleted Views and Widgets

When you create a view or widget in the TFUI, each instance becomes an Application Text record. Once deleted, the Application Text record stays and becomes an orphan. As development continues, there should be a process (or script) to purge all orp...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Documentation about custom node dialog builder

need documentation about custom node dialog builder. When developing custom nodes with custom node dialog builder, variables such as modelerData and modelerDataModel (SPSS reserved words) are handled, but there is not much documentation on how to ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists