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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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Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Option for Server Aministrators to clear history of all users that is stored in Recent and Favorites

Why useful? After reports are updated/altered, users will continue to choose objects displayed in their Recent or Favorites, where the report may not reflect the most recent changes. This becomes problematic, given we then have to field questions ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

"Ghost" record downstream mitigation via CP4D filter

In our downstream systems, any ghost record that is generated in CP4D (currently being tackled by IBM engineering) is also part of the payloads sent out via ds jobs. This is causing technical issues in connected systems that are flattening the pay...
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Separating configuration from MDM/MDMUI/BPM containers

While migrating from one DC to another DC with IP change and other configuration changes, we need to go for fresh installation which should not be the case in containerized environment.
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 2 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Submitted