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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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Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to download the default welcome page / logon page for modification

Customer doesn't want to develop own welcome page and logon page as well as modify any samples. The request is to be able to download the default one, modify and upload. Either replace the existing one or upload a new name.We know https://www.ibm....
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Simplify CDC Owner Password Change for Oracle Target

We are requesting a simplified method of changing the CDC owner password for an Oracle target instance. Rather than having to reconfigure the CDC instance on Linux using the dmconfigurets we would like a command line password change. For example, ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

A way to automate user und group management in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a way to automate the user und group management in PAW. Regarding the export of this data, please make a trigger available from outside, e.g. via an API or via a shell-script.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

A better overview of users and groups in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a better overview of users and groups in PAW. Currently it is hard to keep track if you have hundreds of users. E.g., there is no way to find users without groups.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow temp tables and backup before images to handle temp dbspaces which fill up.

If temporary tables/backup before images are spread across multiple temp dbspaces and one fills then put the data/page into the temp dbspaces which have space.This would stop backups/jobs failing.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Request IDAA V7 Container code via Shop Z and SMP

Today, V7 container code for both IIAS and Z are downloaded from Fix Central. It is a different download and website than normal Stored Procedure and other Db2 related maintenance PTFs. Some customers have download issues such as download runs for...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE should immediately fail or at least warn when source table is ineligible for SWAP

Even after upgrading the database to Db2 V11.5 and beyond, older tables with check constraints and/or generated columns that were created before V9.7 will still cause the SWAP phase of ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to fail with SQL0668N reason code 10. The und...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

SAP BW Dataconnection out of Support on 31.12.2018

A data connection to an SAP BW system is to be set up.The client SAP NetWeaver RFC library 7.20 recommended by IBM is no longer supported by SAP as of 31.12.2018. SAP refers to "SAP NetWeaver RFC Library 7.50" as the successor.This driver cannot b...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration