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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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DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Arm64 support for Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx

I am trying to use the dotnet library Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx on an Apple Macbook M3 Pro, but it fails to work. I was told it is because the library does not support Arm64 systems. Can we add Arm64 support? See this thread for back story.
8 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Revision of the DMC installation

We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Support Microsoft Edge Chromium for Cognos Analytics

Our Company has rolled out Edge Chromium has the default browser but this browser is not yet supported. Although it worked fine for v11.1.4, it gives issues in v11.1.7 when creating a new report or editing an existing report (cannot reasd property...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

PAfE - Autofit setting for a Cube View (rows and columns) in the Viewer

Hi team, It would be highly appreciated by customers if you add auto-fit setting to Viewer in PAfE. At the moment the users have to resize width of the rows and columns to be able to start data analysis.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

DMC for P10 systems (pLinux)

Provide ability to administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 on the P10 systems.
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted