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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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USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 load ALLOW READ ACCESS support for column organized table

Currently, if a db2 load is happening on a column organized table, users are NOT able to read the data from same table until the load is finished. It's inconvenience for the customer and its users in their daily operation. Thus, the customer wants...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Syncronized navigation paths

When using a Cognos Analytics dashboard, multiple visualizations often share a common column and thus a common navigation path. There should be a property, much like the widget connections property, that allows the dashboard developer to synchroni...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC Replicating DATA of VIEW from MAINFRAME to DISTRIBUTED

I have a requirement where we want to replicate data of a view to AIX side. I am attaching VIEW DDL is it possible with the help of CDC to achieve replication to AIX table View on mianframe is as follows CREATE VIEW PPSDB01.EXPR_PAL_ADDR AS SELECT...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to provide a tenant specific deployment-folder

As an tenant administrator I would like to export or import content from Cognos analytics. You can assign a export/import-definition to a specific tenant. The ZIP-files with content will end up in the deployment folder. There is just one deploymen...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control DB2 z/OS IFCID 376 trace volume

When we need to turn on IFCID 376 trace to get information, the trace is an all or nothing setting for the system. In our case, the volume generates in excess of 56 million IFCID 376 records in a day. 99.9% of them are 1108: Long client special Re...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Reload View button in Cube Viewer

In Cube Viewer, add the button called "Reload View" as found in Architect\Perspectives. This is helpful when a user drags dimensions around so they can return to the original state of the view.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show altered Sequence value in Db2 Catalog

Currently the next value of a sequence can not be easily retrieved from the catalog after a ALTER SEQUENCE command (without retrieving it and increasing it at the same time). Especially when moving from one environment to another it is important t...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Allow for simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier

It is an expected behaviour of the simple search to return records/entities based on a full/partial entity_identifier.
12 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration