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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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Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

Ask Tableau to support connectivity with Netezza Performance Server for AWS

- Why is it useful?If Tableau supports connectivity with Netezza Performance Server (NPS) for AWS, Tableau users can connect to NPS by using Tableau connector. According to below Tableau document, NPS is not supported. PDA (old Netezza) is support...
9 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Increase limitation of Head file system

Hello Team, Currently we have limitation of head file system and we are sometimes having free space issues and we are manually getting the FODC dumps deleted for freeing up the space. Can we remove the limitation and increase the head file system ...
9 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Automatic deletion of unneeded archive logs

The following directories of c-db2u-dv-db2u-0 will continue to accumulate archive logs regardless of how often the user uses them. /mnt/bludata0/db2/archive_log/db2inst1/BIGSQL/NODE0000/LOGSTREAM0000/C0000000 If left unattended, the file system m...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Report Authoring Add frameworkmanager package and data module

Report Authoring Add frameworkmanager package and data module together as source
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support multilingual data labels for non-directly referenced query items in DQM

When you have a multilingual Framework Manager package and re-use query items (for example with a join or query reference) in your report. The data item labels of this report will be, in contrast to CQM, not in the content-locale language (defined...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration