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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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Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Application status change time is not available in any mon_get_* table functions

In snap admin views, users could see STATUS_CHANGE_TIME column for the application which was helpful in determining when exactly the application changed it status when investigating performance issues. This would help users to estimate or know how...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for Workflow Action Comment

Currently, change history does not include previous comments made in the "Action Comment" field (workflow comment popup). The popup cannot be used to serve as rejection or approval if the comment (which might provide conditional approval) is not t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Not under consideration

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Dashboard - Link Tabs together (Hyperlinks)

One of our customers needs to have this navigation scenario implemented in Cognos Analytics Dashboard: Ability to link Dashboard tabs together by having a hyperlink on a text item or box in a tab that a user can click on and that takes the user di...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make Export add a column header row to output

Export is often used to download data from a Db2 Server to a user's workstation where they then look at it in excel.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes Replicate “}ApplicationSecurity” cube for workbook security, dimensions are }WorkbookEntries }GroupsThe settings in the cube are• View only - The user can view content in the book but can't edit it.• ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Object should go into advisory reorg when PCTFREE, PCTFREE for update, FREEPAGE is altered instead of immediate alter to have the REORG pick it up and ensure it is done. Having it immediate is just a catalog update and it might be missed.

When Altering PCTFREE, PCTFREE for UPDATE or FREEPAGE, the DB2 catalog is updated and the DBA must ensure a reorg is run to materialize the change. A process that can be missed. I would like to see this as a pending change and have the reorg pick ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restart Time of DB2 should not be dependent on SCA size

During restart of DB2, the time difference between DSNR003I and DSNR004I is a function of the SCA size. Case TS009645595 was opened and has all the details. But in summary: this large time differenece of 30 seconds (in our case) is a function of t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration