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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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When DB2 writes a message to the DB2 Log, DB2 could also optionally write the contents of the message to a new IBM Catalog Table SYSIBM.DB2_Messages or a user defined table.

WHY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA Many of our DB2 subsystems and members remain active for several months or more. Searching for a DB2 Message can take a long time in SDSF when analysing and diagnosing problems. Having all of the DB2 Messages in a Table mak...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow batch export on non-BDI-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
12 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Allow Investigation on non-API-enabled Instances

There are many occasions when a review of the data is required to troubleshoot, verify, or perform general research. Due to the way that Safer Payments replicates transaction activity there are many situations when the data will be different, so i...
12 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Manta Data Lineage: Support LDAP/AD Authentication for Redshift Connections

The current version of Manta only supports local account authentication for Redshift connection but does not support Azure AD authentication. Requesting that Manta supports the ability to authenticate Redshift connections with AD/LDAP users.
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Questionnaires via REST API

Questionnaires via REST API Currently there is no REST API to pull the Questionnaire Question and responses using the REST API. only option is Cognos. Which is not helpful to get the real-time data.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Refactoring Assistant: Automatically link to newly refactored code

The refactoring Assistant slice the monolith cobol into micro services. But then, you have a phase where you must adapt both cobol (the monolith, to make a "call" to the Refactored Cobol ans the refactored Cobol where you need to have a linkage se...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Cognos 11 - Email Attachment Restriction

Requesting the ability to lock down a user or group's ability to send reports as attachments in email form. This functionality was available by adding a "CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment" "ui_hide" parameter value in the system.xml file (under "{in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration
108 VOTE

Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0