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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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PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The customer want db2 product match the new standard of GB 18030-2022, which will come into effect on August 1, 2023.

The customer will have to match GB 18030-2022 standard.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add configuration options for LDAP Names to GUI in CPD

There is currently no way to configure what names are pulled from LDAP in the user interface for LDAP Configuration in CPD. After working with Harjit Thind, it was decided that we should open a development request to expose these configuration opt...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

MT Message with Field Labels

To generate daily Reports for customer, we are using MWH Tables. Customer is having a requirement to generate a report which shows the MT Message Content with Field Labels. We could get MT Message Content from MWH Tables but not the Field Labels. ...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Have multiple DV instances on one CP4D install

Currently, We can't deployment multiple DV instance services. This may bring some limits, especially for sensitive data. Please consider adding support for this. Our scenario needs to support multiple departments/groups using DV, and the related d...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Warning message inside PA Excel regarding version compatibility with PA Workspace

Version of PA Excel and PA Workspace needs to be compatible with each other. Sometimes business users face lot of issues when PA Excel version is not compatible with PA Workspace. It takes time to figure out the issue is because of compatibility. ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extendable smartblob/blob chunks

Since 11.70 chunks can be made extendable.12.10 introduced the physical log dbspace – which is also extendable.But smartblob/blob chunks cannot be expanded with the sysadmin task:EXECUTE FUNCTION task("modify chunk extend", …)Since Fragment Le...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Functionality already exists

IDAA Studio - Show the accelerator where the query run on SQL results screen

IDAA Studio - Show the accelerator where the query run on SQL results screen.
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration