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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Dashboard - Ability to Modify or Hide the Standard Templates

When you go to create a Dashboard you are presented with a blank template. It has no header/footer on it. As a government agency we need to have specific headers and footers for compliance reasons. You can use the Text Widget to create labels to a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add options to Run and Save after selecting "Try It" when editing a Data Module

When editing a Data Module, after selecting "Try It", there is no option for Run options, View, Run, or Save. As it is now, you have to save the Data Module, then from the Welcome screen, select Edit Report from the action menu.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Property "Maximum execution time" for DQM in Reporting and Framework Manager Governors

The feature is for Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Prem. Property "Maximum execution time" in Cognos Reporting and Framework Manager Governors works in CQM mode. It does not work in DQM mode, This property need be tuned to work in DQM mode. Additi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove STOP DATABASE SPACENAM for ALTER TABLESPACE USING STOGROUP

Currently STOP DATABASE SPACENAM is a prerequisite of ALTER TABLESPACE USING STOGROUP We wish DB2 can remove this restriction.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Upcoming Maintenance Window Summary to Main Product Panel

It would be very helpful to users of both the Db2 Automation Tool and the new Db2 Autonomics Expert products if the main panel of each product was enhanced to display the next scheduled maintenance window to be executed and number of actions in th...
11 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Provide an easier method to bulk delete actions from a maintenance window

In the course of normal testing/usage of the autonomics functionality of the Db2 Automation Tool or the new Db2 Automation Expert, there are times when too many actions have been added to a maintenance window, and the user needs/wants to prune man...
11 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow a Maintenance Window execution to be suspended/cancelled

There are situations that occasionally arise where the execution of a maintenance window needs to be suspended/cancelled. Examples of this are 1) when performing testing or debugging of a maintenance window, 2) when the execution of a maintenance ...
11 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Azure Blob support with EntraID

General Motors leveraging DataStage have an increasing number of their users moving their applications from on-premises to Azure. With that strategic move, GM needs support for connecting to Azure Blob Storage for their DataStage ETL / ELT jobs. M...
11 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review