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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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Extend support of IBM i Datatypes

To extend the support for DB2 for IBM i data types, including BINARY (BINCHAR), VARBINARY, XML NCHAR, NVARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CREATE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE ITEMS

When selecting more than one Data Item, the options Explore -> 'Create' is not available. If only a single item is selected instead, the 'Create' option is available.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provision in CDC API to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs?

I understand that CDC API can be used to read the transactional data from any of the active informix logical logs.Do we have a provision to read the transactional data from archived/backed-up Informix logical logs? If no, I would like to log an en...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Assign value to a Parameter from a Report Studio Query

In a Report Studio, have the ability to assign a value to a parameter, where the value is calculated in a query.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view. If we choose All Roots then we will be able to do the search for all members. Default view not pulling any results if we search for leaf attribute. SEV 1 IBM Case was opened for this ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

List interactivity, and chart filtering and highlighting segment.

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a segment in a chart
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

db2caem should support 'SET CURRENT QUERY OPTIMIZATION = N'

For diagnostic of Db2 performance problems the tool db2caem can be very helpful. Especially if a particular query plan should be compared using different optimization levels. Using db2caem the optimization level must be specified by embedded optim...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration