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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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New system variables $NCASES, $NNUMERIC, and $NSTRING

The following are FAQs in SPSS discussion forums: 1) How can I get the total number of cases in my file? 2) How can I get the total number of variables? For 2, sometimes people may want the number of string variables only or the number of numeric ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Error DIA3202C in db2diag.log does not include database name

getting an error in db2diag.log that a connection to a database ist not possible because of a TCP/IP call does not work. In our case a connection to a remote database should be established, which was already dropped. But there is no database name ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Provide capability for SLB Utility to timeout when HSM does not respond to backup request.

Currently the SLB utility sits in a wait state until ackowledgement of the backup request is returned from HSM. During this time a lock SYS_PITR is is held that prevents any DFDSS activity by Db2. This can lead to Db2 thread failures and data inco...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Download option for artifacts import summary

Hi Team, After importing the artifacts (business terms/ data classes or more) through csv file, the import summary didn't have the download option that client is expecting. Please add download option for import error report. Client imported the da...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Adaption for Setup on Openshift (incl. Helm Chart)

IBM already publishes the DB2 DMC as docker file for hosting with docker. We wrote a simple deployment script for installing the image on Openshift. Currently we experience some problems there and debugging is not easy in this setup. So for easier...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Support of TO_SINGLE_BYTE (oracle function) in 1363 code page database

Needs for higher Oracle compatibility.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Update Java API to be able to run Cognos reports into Excel 2007 format.

The Java API supports the running of Cognos Reports but the Output Format for the report is limited to the enumeration types documented in the CognosOutputFormat class - which is CSV, PDF, XLWA, HTML, XML. To be able to run a report via the API in...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

SEL Prototype to include HIDDEN columns

Contents of Hidden columns can only be viewed by explcitly naming them in a SELECT statement. There is no problem with this but there are times when I want to a) know that a column is hidden from the column panel ADB21TC b) issue a SELECT that wil...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration