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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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transaction log backup compress and encrypt on SQL Server

currently we are experiencing replication issues such as the one in PMR no TS009339747 with the error the transaction log backup is compressed or encrypted. IBM Infosphere Data Replication does not support compressed or encrypt. currently, why log...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

ADB21TC Dropping more than 1 column gets Select only one

ADM only allows dropping one column at a time. You must complete the drop, the revisit the panel again and again to drop all the columns. ADM should allow multiple D entries and one press Enter to handle this.
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Printing/Scheduling capability in Planning Analytics Web and Workspace

We like to request Planning Analytics Web and Workspace should have printing and report scheduling functionality. Currently no such functionality exists which requires analysts/manager to download reports created in TM1 planning analytics/workspac...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

A way to save user-specific context in PAW

PAW is missing a way (like cookies) to save selected dimension elements per user, e.g. to provide a user-specific default value. With this it should also be possible to keep elements selected from one PAW workbook to another.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

OOTB Integration of watsonx.ai with watsonx.data for fine-tuning foundational models for the organization

Our customer participated in watsonx.ai early adoption program, however, they have raised critical points required for Enterprise consumption of foundational models. This is a roadblock to their adoption of watsonx. One of them is the OOTB Integra...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Enhance command -DISPLAY PROFILE with keyword DETAIL

The -DISPLAY PROFILE command allows to determine if profiling is active or inactive on a specific DB2 member. The command returns output similar to: -display profile DSNT753I +DB2A DSNT1DSP DISPLAY PROFILE REPORT FOLLOWS: STATUS = ON TIMESTAMP = ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration