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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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DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date

In V12 it was intended to extend the NPGTHRSH to empty tables and to tables with missing stats. The idea was to pick up the appropriate index which means: if a sort can be avoided choose this one, otherwise pick up the index, which has the most ma...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Users from creating jobs

We would like to restrict certain users from creating new jobs and executing them using DMC. Due to the strict data access and tightened restrictions for offshore team due to the work from home process in place, we would like the offshore team to ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Unique Index, where one specific value can be duplicate

MR0125102749 GGDB209018Enhance the create index similar to the UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL clause
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Bullet charts need to incorporate both time and versions

Bullet charts should be able to show how a particular metric is tracking over time towards a specific target. At the moment this is not readily achievable in PAW. In the example screenshot attached, it is not possible to track actual revenues to a...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

We need a connector from Db2 zOS to AWS DynamoDB, please, with sugar!

There is no straightforward way to use IIDR to replicate from Db2 zOS to DynamoDB on AWS. I think many customers could benefit from this additional capability.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

JDBC Connector support more host in the connection string for mongodb

Hello team, the customer when connecting to mongodb via jdbc connector would need to be able to insert multiple hosts in the connection string instead of just one host as mentioned in the progress documentation that was provided to us by IBM suppo...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cube to cube drill through should export to excel

Hi, I would like to have it so that my users can do a cube to cube drill through in PAW and if they need to be able to export to csv the same as they can with the cube to database drill through in PAW
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration