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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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Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add attachment file name to the schedule report "View run history" status screen

Please add the attachment report name to the schedule report's "View run history" screen so that Admins can see what report was attached to the scheduled report and was distributed.Also, if the attachment is different then the actual report name, ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

}ROLLUP_ELEM functionality

Users have the ability in Perspectives to create adhoc }ROLLUP_ELEM_ consolidations to aggregate elements is private views. This functionality does not work in PAfE.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Moving extra area for IRLM latch information provided by PI93817 from QTXA to a new section.

This is related to PMR 73570,611,760. Applying a PTF for PI93817, new 124 bytes fields for IRLM latch contention counters are added to IFCID QTXA section, which is shared between statistics and accounting trace. However, those new fields are used ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DMC - Display Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) values of Column Masks and Row Permissions for each Table

This would be a useful feature to allow DBAs to not have to leave the DMC tool and use a different tool to verify the FGAC items are in place for various tables in a Database. The DSM tool had a Tab FGAC that would display the FGAC values in place...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Track REORGs with SHRLEVEL NONE

We do not want anyone to run a REORG with SHRLEVEL NONE. If they do we might end up with big problems, especially if it abends or we have to terminate it. We see no reason to use SHRLEVEL NONE with REORG any more unless it is a huge tables that ca...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Adjust the priority of pending reason

If both license lack and limit(SLOTS, JOBS) reach together, the job pending reason shows license reason ONLY, not include limit. We want to adjust the priority of pending reason "limit(SLOTS, JOBS)" related pending reason is requested as high ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Global Pins for Dashboard

Create Global Pins in Dashboardingso they can be shareed with other users. The business purpose would be for our developers to create a dashboard object library that users can just drag in and combine into their dashboards
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rich text content not available in reports

The long description fields in the ICD can contain formatted content („rich text content“).This content cannot be reported with Cognos.The appropriate cognos tool for this kind of data would be the Rich Text element but these elements support ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release