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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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Enhance display utility command

It would be useful to be able to determine if a utility (such as REORG) is safe to terminate w/o forcing a recovery. I'd like to see if it's using a shrlevel other than NONE.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Salesforce Connector support for other fields other then Id and External ID fields of Reference Objects for Load Operations

Salesforce Connector support for other fields other then Id and External ID fields of Reference Objects for Load Operations
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Allow Admin Users to put Planning Analytics in Single Mode

In some cases, when we would like to perform some maintenance or run specific processes with higher priority (such as an FAP Initial Publish), we would like to prevent users from loging into the application, so putting it into Single Mode would be...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow FAP to pass Journal Header info over from Controller to Planning Analytics

In order to allow the Finance Planning and Analysis team to have a better view on Journal information in Planning Analytics, it would be best to allow FAP to pass the Journal's header information over from Controller to PA.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Expanding Messages DSNB355I and DSNB356I

MSG DSNB355I / DSNB356I did not give information for the affected object and page. So any reaction and reason search on these Messages is not possible. Please expand the message information for the object information with DBID.PSID.#partno.#pageno.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Search for Users when creating Schedules

When creating an Email Delivery for a Schedule it is possible to search the Cognos and other custom Namespaces for Users, Groups, and Roles for any results that Contain the search text but the search is Case specific. Please enhance the Search Fil...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

API to inspect collection status in detail.

The WD for CP4D has API v2 which does not have listing collection details. Sometimes collection stops processing documents and not sure what is the collection status for trouble shooting.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration