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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.

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Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Unload LOCK YES Drain Writers instead of executing LOCK TABLE

When executing HPU in Native MODE with parameters ULLOCK = YES, ULLOCKTE = LOCK and ULLOCKMO = NATIVE_ONLY HPU executes a EXEC SQL LOCK TABLE. Sometimes table being locked is in a TS whose a IX TS lock was left in DB2 due to this table be used in ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reconciliation rules per dimension, not only legal entity

In the section "Reconciliation" in Controller Web you can see three reconciliation rules Debit - Credit, OB-CB and any account rules. However, the rules are only applied on legal entity level and not per extended dimension. Would be a great advant...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Imroved administration of linked structures

The administration of linked structures (Company - Dim1/2/3/4) with a great number of companies, is very time consuming. With many companies, having more or less the same access to dimensions but with minor differences, you need to set up and main...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Print all company journals for a group, including subgroups

Possible to print a report of company journals for a specific group including all subgroups and companies below.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

purescale support HADR ROS

System: DB2 LUW pureScaleActor: User needing HADR read of standby on pureScale environmentNow db2 V10.5 and above had provided HADR component for pureScale but missed Read of standby feature. Description: some customer had used HADR ROS feature on...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Future consideration

Common Customizable Header Above the Dashboard Tabs

At the moment within a dashboard we don't have an out of box option to add a common header on top of the tabs of the dashoard. We should have a common header or also ability to edit to add tab specific conents but the main thing is it should be ab...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Reading xml(amd LOB/CLOB) fields from DB2 transaction logs rather than separate select statements

We noticed on production that if there are xml fields in the table , then CDC don't read from transaction logs , but rather directly sends 'select' queries. Same behavior has been verified by https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-are-lobs-clobs-an...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review