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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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IA GUI does not display decimal trailing 0s

IA GUI does not display decimal .00; if decimal .50, it displays only .5, but if decimal .15, it normally displays. when they check in the Database, they have a decimal .00, and then check on the thin client it has a decimal .0000000000 Can we mod...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Needs more information

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
4 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Change visualisation color manually

Being able to manually change visualization colors of bars/lines would be very helpful. Every now and again we encounter multiple uses of the same color while the pallet allows for more colors (see attachment). While this should not happen in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Layout improvement for dashboard visualizations

Using relative positioning for the dashboard canvas, it is very difficult to properly lineup the visualizations, they do not snap to bordering visualizations. Lets says you have 3 visualizations and the first 2 have a width of 11% you would expect...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Lighter Weight db2fodc -hang

Db2 Support often asks customers to collect db2fodc -hang to investigate hang issues. This is an heavyweight command that causes severe impact to customers' workload. We need a lighter weight db2fodc -hang command that allows users to input an app...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

enhancement for dmdecodebookmark command

It would be very useful if the value of the bookmark is translated into a timestamp for the administration of the product.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration