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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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Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Formula-based MAX_QUERYDEGREE settings.

MAX_QUERYDEGREE allows to specify the maximum degree of parallelism for a query. The setting of ANY is usually to aggressive for typical Db2 SAP systems. Specifying an absolute value has the disadvantage of having to adjust the parameter for every...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Automatically tag imported assets

Automatically assign a user pre-defined tag to all imported assets of a Metadata Import job. Example: when importing a physical data model for different databases, an auto-tag in metadata import job would help identify the assets imported (if it r...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Planned for future release

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Canadian Data Centre for Cognos On-Demand

Many Canadian organizations require that all their data stay within Canada (both for storage and transit). A Canadian data centre is currently not available for Cognos On-Demand.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration