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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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Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Accelerating Subqueries in IWA

Currently, IWA does not fully accelerate subqueries of the following two forms: 1) Subqueries in FROM clause 2) Subqueries in WHERE clause:
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export node with append option

Currently, we need to generate an Excel file with historical data processed periodically with a Modeler stream as a batch execution. The Excel file should append the data each time, not overwriting. The node can write an existing file, but always ...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Global Timestamp

Currently in OpenPages there is only one timestamp for sign-off. I work at a global Japanese Bank and the timestamp is configured for the Tokyo Time zone. This means that if someone in New York Signs-off on a workpaper after lunch, it will show a ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints at report level to avoid override model level or server level governance

There are a few governors that we want to ensure they cannot be overridden at report level. 1. Maximum row retrieved (report level)/Maximum number of retrieved rows (model level) 2. Maximum execution time (report level)/Query execution time limit ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add option to Cognos Command Center to select plugin/plugin version when importing jobs

For example: source system: CCC 10.2.4 with TM1 9.5.2 Plugin target system: CCC 10.2.4 with TM1 10.2.2 Plugin During an upgrade cycle, if we need to move jobs from the source system to the target system, customers are expected to downgrade the plu...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Change behavior of option PARALLEL(0) for REORG TABLESPACE

We had a problem recently when a reorg of a tablespace with 100 partitions consumed far too much real storage. We ran the reorg with PARALLEL(0) and it choose to use 188 parallel tasks. That was probably OK at the beginning of the execution but no...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Administrators are able to set the startpageurl preference in Controller centrally

The startpageurl preference is not available at server preference level and has to be setup and configured by each user themselves.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Zparm to specify maximum amount of bufferpool storage

Please provide a Zparm to specify the maximum amount of bufferpool storage DB2 may aquire for all of the bufferpools.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Display RTS values from the system catalog Table view

In the DB2 Admin tool we have to navigate to the tablespace to see the RTS values. What I would like to to be able to issue the RTS command against the table. All DBAs and a lot of application team members look at tables and want to RTS informatio...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration