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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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I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Garbled text on the IBM Db2 Data Management Console provisioning instance screen in the service catalog of CP4D v4.8.4 (software version).

When navigating to the IBM Db2 Data Management Console provisioning instance screen from the service catalog in CP4D v4.8.4 (software version), the text becomes garbled as shown in the attached image if the browser's language setting is Japanese. ...
10 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

HPU : external file support for IN predicate

our customer wants to migrate from a competitor's product to IBM HPU. This product supports the following syntax to read a list of arguments for the SQL - WHERE IN predicate from a flat file. The syntax is as follows: SELECT * FROM creator.tbnameW...
10 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) on OpenShift: Implement MySQL as StatefulSet

The issue with the MySQL in PAW is that it is implemented as Deployment. When the database pod is rescheduled, there is a chance that the new instance is started before the old instance has finished shutting down. In this situation, both pods writ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.

Increase the number of characters of relationship description or allow attaching files.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To supported to use %%BindVarVal to retrieve bind variable value for system i

Hi We have a request to use bind variable and need to be support for i series in guardium
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Relative Proportional Spreads for multiple quarters and years

Allow relative proportional spread to multiple quarters at once. For example, take Q3 2022 Actuals and spread this to Q1 to Q4 2023 Forecast data.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration