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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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Recognize csv formatted file, even if the file extension is missing/wrong

CSV formatted files are central to inputting data into Cognos Dashboard Embedded. If a user creates or is provided with a file where the extension was left off, or different, Cognos Dashboard Embedded will not allow you to import it (e.g. consider...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Change behaviour of duplicate entries in Range Lookups

When using a range lookup (range selected on the main stream) when matching e.g. a key column and range of date from/to you may get more than one hit for the key but the range on the date columns will make the lookup unique, in this case you still...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow more options on -MODIFY TRACE command

We sometimes get clobbered with processes that generate lots of Db2 accounting records to the point where SMF is overwhelmed in collecting/offloading them. We are able to identify the offending authid with our online monitor, but until we can cont...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide table function that collects DSN1COMP data

For sake of brevity, I will confine this request to DB2 index compression analysis, but it also applies to tablespaces. When have more than 100,000 indexes in our various Production DB2 systems. We want to know which of these indexes are the most ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add SHADOW for REBUILD INDEX SHRLVE CHANGE

Differences between REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REFERENCE. Reference PMR:13307,124,672
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Need support for Oracle clustered tables

Request for IDR/CDC for Oracle to support sourcing from Oracle clustered tables. At this time, the documentation indicates this is not supported.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Reading CSV Files with Non-Delimiting Commas

The Var File Source node in Modeler is not able to detect commas within a comma-delimited file that are not delimiters. A comma within a single field would currently cause that field to be read as two fields, and distort all of the data beyond the...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Saved file/attachment from a Report Studio report

Requirement is to retrieve/download physical file when we click on respective column from Report Studio report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information about Fast Traversal Index Count

Application DBA's and Developers can't verify the usage of FTB and if there has been any CPU reduction or reduction in numer of getpages. Omegamon have metrics about SQL (SQL count, n/o getpages and CPU). These metrics should also include number o...
almost 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration