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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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Add the column name to sqlcode -407

When there are many columns in the sql and there are many rows that affected by the sql, it is very difficult to found the problematic column.For example, if it is an INSERT statement with fullselect, or UPDATE statement that update many rows with...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Command to resolve in-place alters

Have a command "UPGRADE_IPA" which can be run against a table/fragment to resolve in-place alters. This should have an online option which utilizes small transactions.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Optionally providing a larger search results area

An optionally larger search area is required for customers with larger Content Stores. This can be provide on a global level.The search area can be expanded either within the existing window or in a new browser tab. This would solve the current li...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate schema from SQL statement

In DB2 Connector stage it should be possible to generate the schema based on the (handcoded) Select statement. It could be an additional option of the Tools Button ("Generate schema/columns").
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Catalog limiting to 10 assets while adding to Projects

Verizon does bulk adding of assets from catalog to Projects. In 4.5.3 release the Catalog adding to projects limited to 10. Entered a SF ticket and the dev team asked us to create a AHA ticket and this is as per Design. Please extend it to 100 or ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DIS LOCATION - Show entries for multiple drivers versions from a single server

DIS LOCATION caches the PRDID for the first connection from a remote server. Additional traffic from the same server using different drivers is not dynamically displayed. For example if a test connect uses the JCC driver and all additional traffic...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow more than one separator character when unloading in delimited format

A competitor's unload tool allowed us to specify more than one character in the separator field when unloading data in delimited format. We had to use more than one character, because for unloads of certain tables, we couldn't find a character tha...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Not under consideration