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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.

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Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

SDK connecting with OKTA via OpenID

On Cloud we cannot use Gateway to hide multiples namespaces and we are usign OpenID with Okta. We have applications running with SDK and now it must to connect using OpenID.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TI support for PAW cube view/widget MDX update

I would like to request a TI support to update cube view/widget MDX and refresh view after the TI is executed. This will allow developers to offer user selection driven customized views and visualization experience in PAW.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Default action when accessing shared URL

IBM Cognos analytics V11.0.8 introduced the capability to set a default action for reports. A report default action could be set to 'Run' which causes the report to run when the report is clicked in the interface regardless of the existence of a s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Viewing Dashbords with Filters

I have a dashboard with global and local filters available. After opening the dashboard for viewing, if I then change any of the filters then the Cognos connection is seeing this as a change to the dashboard, this should not be the case. If I am v...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Audit Log on Questionnaires and Split Comments based on role

Two fold. An audit log on questionnaires to review changed responses and who changed them, as well as prior comments. Second, the ability for different groups to have different comment boxes they can edit.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Call pre-executed Active Report output version

The customer wants to call a pre-executed report output version. If we use the URL that is in the new "share"-option in C11R05 the report is executed, the saved output-version is not called.If we use the following syntax the cognos navigation on t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration