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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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MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

When grid values are shown as percentages. Compute variances by subtracting the percentage rather than underlying number.

We would like to be able to use the base functionality of showing values of a cube view as percentages and subsequently correctly calculate a variance between those percentages.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make compressed timestamp columns use TIMESTAMP datatype in the control file

After performing load service, Timestamps do not have milliseconds in Oracle target database althoughsource database timestamps have milliseconds Steps to Reproduce :Step1 : Unzip the histo.zip file provided in other to get "histo" folderStep2 : R...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Show detailed error message in Cognos Analytics Data Module- Cognos 11.0.12

Team, We are using the Data module functionality more often. We are not receiving the detailed error message in the screen if there is any issue with the underlying data. It is just showing the standard error message "Can not load grid data: An ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save the login password in Cognos (tm1) node over multiple sessions

When using SPSS Modeler to get data from Cognos the customer would like to store the login details into the stream, preferably not on a per node basis. There stream connects multiple times to Cognos to get different sets of data. At the moment (V1...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Allow Creation Date as a 'Due Date' field argument (with offset) for Workflows

Currently if workflow instances are started and stopped (to do required tasks such as workflow version upgrades/releases) the due dates are all reset. Currently you can only use 'Workflow Start Date' which would reset or a field. You cannot lock i...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

}Externals Folder Maintenance

There are scenarios where old files stay behind in the}Externals folder. Either from file system issues or connection issues during a report update or deletion. Over time these files clutter the folder and make it hard for us to do analysis on the...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support query parameters in projection clause

See: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001MLNI2AAP/db2parameter-not-working-with-merge-statement This works with DB2 according to IBM support staff.
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration