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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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when drop-create a unique index , start tablespace in RO to avoid duplicate keys

Sometimes our customers want to add an extra column/change order of colums in a unique index, which requires drop-create of index. To avoid duplicate keys, we often create a new unique index and then drop the old unique index - or drop-create ind...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Flexlm License controls

We would like to add the enhancement for flexlm license command to release a license from the RTM webui From RTM > License tab > Feature Checkouts > from the list of feature we would like to be able to release a license if neededHere is t...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Share private subsets between users

(See attached file for more information) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users use private subsets all the time. For example, they track the progress of their top products by saving them int...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - "Remove" calculation in set editor should remove calculation from the query and not only from the current set

(See attached file for more details) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. When they don’t use it anymore, they simply remove the calculation fr...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Store user defined calculation

End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. However, they have no way to save these calculations in case they want to use it in another view. There’s no workaround, they have to re-create the calculation every time they need it. I've a...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Planning Analytics rounding issue

In a case submitted to IBM: TS008741229 my team discovered that due to the design of Planning Analytics in terms of how it stores values (IEEE-754 Floating Point Double format) we came across scenarios where PA would not round correctly and hence ...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Class 2 In-DB2 CPU times are often zero

With DB2's current IFI implementation, class 2 times are updated when a class 2 event occurs. Consequently, when IFCID 148 is requested for a thread that is In-DB2, no CPU times can be seen until the SQL statement ends. IFCID 148 must reflect the ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JSON_TABLE enhancement

JSON_TABLE UDF support in DB2 z/OS - while providing some support for parsing JSON documents does not have a robust functionality like JSON_TABLE in I series. Providing a more robust full functionality support - similar to XMLTABLE will allow easy...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration