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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 DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if you...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Continue to support for websheets added by reference

Planning Analytics no longer supports Websheets that were added by reference. This feature has been supported in all past versions, and should continue to be supported
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to customize "My schedules and subscriptions" view

Many of our Cognos Analytics users complain that they are not able to customize the view of “My schedules and subscriptions” in Cognos Analytics. They would like to change the width of “Name” column and shrink unnecessary wide columns like “Priori...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need IDAA on z to support dynamic routing

We need the IDAA on z LPAR to have the ability to support dynamic routing. When connecting to z/OS LPARs on the same CEC using Hipersockets and OSA cards, IDAA is unable to determine the proper route to send data back to z/OS.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

List of data sources in Cognos Administration listed in a flat list. We should use folder structures.

There is no way to organize the data sources in Cognos Connection Administration.The current offering is a list. It would be more advantageous to allow folders so an administrator could group the data sources in a more logical manner. The problem ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than one separator character when unloading in delimited format

A competitor's unload tool allowed us to specify more than one character in the separator field when unloading data in delimited format. We had to use more than one character, because for unloads of certain tables, we couldn't find a character tha...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Self service for Top or Bottom function

The standard selection for the "Top or Bottom" function in the report studio, is just the KPI of the crosstab.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Snowflake Native Functions in FM

Snowflake database native functions are not available by default in FM installations due to that we are not able to use snowflake-related functions in report authoring, we have to only common functions which are limited sometimes. installation und...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Functionality already exists

Silent uninstall of ibm data server runtime client renders in error with db2lswtch

We are having problem when uninstalling IBM Data Server Runtime Client 11.5.7.0 from a script. Install works fine but when uninstalling I use this command from a command window as administrator MSIEXEC /X {9915B73E-D89B-4D1C-89B3-5FEF7978024C} /le...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Allow non-intrusive RENAME of Constraint Names

Allow for a non-intrusive RENAME of any type of CONSTRAINT name. Primary Key, Foreign Key, CHECK and UNIQUE Constraint names should be available for RENAME. Currently, changing Constraint names requires the Constraint to be dropped and re-created ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration