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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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Select Alias from dimension short cut menu on views

It would be great to be able to change the Alias for a dimension hierarchy from the shortcut menu of the dimensions selector, similar to the way we can change the hierarchy. Currently we have to open the Set Editor to change the Alias or select th...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove the need of backup/restore for Planning Analytics Workspace

can IBM put the data from curren PAW backup to a cube on IPA data server? remove the need to run backup/restore for PAW? for a pipeline deploying of PAW, the backup/restore process is especially hard to implement/maintain. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mass creation or migration of Virtual Target System maps

Our goal is to use the same VTS names in our formal test environments that are used in production so that developers do not need to change them during the import/export process. On the test environments, we simply point the VTS's to the test endpo...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Restore at table level

Mainly on auditing needs when you have to get some information from the past or when you need to recover just one table only its nowadays you have to do a complete restore. Would be good to have this feature.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

Chart Label in correct order

In a particular chart label are show in reverse order respect to the data
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Advanced JDBC Connection parameters on ASM connections

When configuring IDR CDC Agent for Oracle databases having ASM stored redo and archive logs, and having crypto-checksumming parameters in sqlnet.ora, IDR CDC Agent take advanced JDBC configuration parameters when connecting to the Database but not...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration