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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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I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.

DVM studio only showed the partial record_id and skipped all the characters following the low-values. We would like IBM to enhance the DVM Studio to make it display the entire record_id exactly the same way as the DVM Batch does.
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

externalize stop command failure

objects remain in STOPP when stop fails with no indication that it failed. a manual start followed by a manual stop is required to cause the object to proceed to a stop state. it's unfortunate, that issuing a start is required since that will allo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary

Please add a Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary function to Cognos Analytics in the Cloud.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

ROCE Virtualization support for DB2 pureScale

ABC (Agriculture Bank of China) are going to deploy lots of pureScale clusters, and each cluster does not demand lots of CPU/MEM/IO resources. Customer wish to deploy pureScale clusters on VMWare virtual machines to save physical machines and most...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the variables are feasible

CPLEX choose to use MIPStart or not accoring to the heuristic. But sometimes the user think MIPStart values as particular variables is the best way to solve the problem. So we’d like to request a new parameter to control to force MIPStart if the v...
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to delete and re-create cluster manager domain via db2haicu as part of major Db2 version upgrade.

Currently, when performing a version upgrade to Db2 V11.1 it is necessary (from a support perspective) to delete the TSAMP Domain and re-create it.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

ISAM configuration with Cognos 11.0.9 with SSO

we have installed cognos analytics(11.0.9) on a Linux machine with IBM HTTP. Later we are trying to configure the CA with ISAM for security and single sign on. where we are facing issues.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Fallback Feature

Fallback function is not available in DOE. For a simple use case where User adds a Column to the table for testing purpose and post testing would like to revert/fallback, the fallback feature is not available in DOE. It will be a good feature &...
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rendering of tabs in the dashboard is not available

Tabs in the dashboard cannot be render conditionally. Why?
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration