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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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Error message improvement when failing to convert tablespace to UTS PBG

Recently we are converting our old segmented and simple tablespaces to UTS PBG. When converting one of these tablespaces we got an abend and a DUMP showing reason code 00C90101. We opended a case (TS009249828) and analyzing the DUMP DB2 lab conclu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

new accounting trace field to indicate if distributed connection was secure or not

We have recently enabled the SECPORT in all our Db2 subsystem. And now it is possible for a distributed client to use the SECPORT (instead of TCPPORT) and establish a secure SSL/TLS connection to the Db2. Great. Ideally, I would like to shut down ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to set "Contains" as the default search option in Select and Search prompt

By default, the Select and Search prompt uses "Start with any of these keywords" as the default search option. This search option does not provide an optimal user experience. On most cases, the users usually remember only part of the string they a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Provide HASH scalar function support in query acceleration

Our data science team heavily user HASH scalar function in day to day business in complex SQL processing. Unfortunately, it is not supported in current IDAA version 7.5.12. and forces to route to native DB2z. It takes long time and requires heavy ...
9 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Lock/ready-mark a subgroup

When using company status you ready mark a company (for a specific closing version, defined in the general configuration settings). However, other journal types than the ones included in that closing version is still open. In the next stage of rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Workflow in Controller Web - Submit

After submitting a submission in Controller Web, you get the following alternatives regarding where you want to go next: Back to overview Back to projects Cancel The best alternative for a logical workflow, would be to be able to select "Start rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to check storage performance

After moving to the cloud, in particular, managed service a user loses the ability to verify storage performance. There should be a stored procedure that allows such a possibility. Basic metrics, like IOPS, bandwidth, etc. Such a service would bui...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

PAX - Show attributes in exploration view

The exploration view is the most common way to show a cube view in Excel. However, it is not possible to display attributes of the dimensions which in my opinion is a big restriction because it will force us to use a DBRA function, but it is not e...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Scroll bar synchronization

Could we please extend the synchronization capability for scroll bars as well in Workbench? Currently we can place multiple widgets in the same tab within WOrkbench. I like this feature as it helps in keeping all things relevant in same tab and wo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration