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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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ALTER TABLESPACE DEFINE YES

Currently, if a tablespace or index is created with DEFINE NO, the underlying VSAM cluster is not created until the first row is inserted, or until LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE is executed. This is used a lot, for example, in SAP or PeopleSoft systems. ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Extend the Value of Omegamon Near-Term History

The Performance Database tables holds history information about Db2 activity, and the sequential output dataset created by NTH can be used as the input to create LOAD files with data to populate most of the tables, but not all. The problem is tha...
over 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

gas gauge visualization

We need a "gas gauge" visualization to show performance
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for PGP encryption for Cognos Analytics cube transfers

Our Cognos Analytics model requires several cubes to be build on-prem and then sent to the cloud. We understand these are encrypted once present on the IBM CA Cloud server. However, we'd like the capability to encrypt before sending them. NM can a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Group Repeating Cells - Export to Excel Default Value

System: Cognos Analytics 11 ReportsActor: User running daily reports Cognos Analytics 11 Reports are scheduled to run daily to analyze different portions of the business and are commonly exported to Excel. Description: Our team writes Daily report...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for AWS Athena as Data Source for Watson Query

There is currently no support for connecting to AWS Athena, the generic connector does not work and no workaround has been found.
about 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Enhance db2move to use remote LOAD from CLIENT

For migration of on premise Db2 database to a cloud service, the usability of db2move would help a lot.For now you have to use manual LOAD commands to load data for each single table to the Db2 on cloud service.db2move can be used from the on prem...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

TRANS NID for spanish NIF/NIE should accept 9 characters

Spanish NIF/NIE has 9 characters so the TRANS NID function always skip the source row because it detects invalid lenght. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=function-masking-spanish-fiscal-identification-numbers
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration