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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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db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM Determining the size of a DB2 backup object https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/determining-size-db2-backup-object describes a workaround for the missing functionality in db2adutl. It should be ab...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Ability to upload flat file / excel file into workspace for reporting

Ability to create dashboards in PAW using non-TM1 data in the form of flat files/.csv files, without the need of storing the dataset in a TM1 cube.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Functional difference between Datastage V11.7 and V11.5.

The client has just migrated their Datastage jobs to V11.7 but they have an issue with variable names in the migrated rules. Although the lab managed to reproduce the issue, they responded two days ago stating that they do not have a workaround fo...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Workflow system fields

Ability to capture the stage name from the action going into that stage into an object field such that this can be made available to the user/reporting for understanding the current position in the workflow. The current system fields are transitor...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Request of support CPLEX for MATLAB

Dear Ma'am/Sir, I'm aware that some time ago, IBM decided not to continue their support for a MATLAB interface. However, with this message I want to speak not only for myself, but also for the community of COBRA Toolbox users. I have had many diff...
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Submitted

Add built-in function for generating new UUID values

Generating new UUIDs for large tables has become a serious performance issue for us. We have a workflow in our application that updates a UUID column for tables in excess of 5 million rows. This takes us upwards of 2 hours in our odbc (cli) applic...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

IFCID 366/376: include SQL text in the trace records

The analysis of IFCID 366/376 is done via SMF records. When these records are available (one day delay), it is nearly impossible to match the statement ID to a statement in dynamic statement cache, because the statement might be already discarded....
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE  for Oracle ID used for CDC replication

Remove the requirement for select catalog role and replace it with the lower level specific authorities required
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

REORG TABLESPACE REBALANCE option to leave some partitions empty

The current REORG TABLESPACE utility with REBALANCE option will distribute rows evenly accross partitions. Many of my tables have ascending keys, so after a REBALANCE of several partitions (example PART(10:16) ), most new rows will be inserted int...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration