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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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Merge Excel , CSV with OLAP sources (TM1/SAP BW)

Merging someone's personal data file with corporate data sources is quite a common requirement from all businesses. Cognos Analytics Data Modules is a very good answer to this requirement. However OLAP datasources are not included. But users like ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow APT_EXECUTION_MODE = "One process" for production environments

In our tests we found for small PX jobs the execution is sped up by almost 30% if we set APT_EXECUTION_MODE = One process. Since we have 10000 of such small job invocations in aggregate this saves a lot of time and resources. But according to IBM ...
8 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Utility History Support

For the utility history support it will be a very nice feature to include a canned report option which gives the utilities that were running at a point in time for an object or a list of objects e.g. at a database level or currently in scope on th...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

JDBC Connection configuration of the JDBC Gateway via Wizard

The customer would be more facilitated through Wizards, which would help him direct the valorization of any parameters such as (TrustStorePath, and TrustStorePassword) to a specialist, based on guided examples that make it clear what he wants to a...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

Add Query Store functionality to Informix and revert to Last Good Plan

Add functionality to Informix similar to SQL Server Query Store. SQL and plans are logged to a system database. Also if a plan gets worse then the server can learn and go back to the previous query plan if still valid. This would be helpful when t...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add ability to print deadlock information

Add ability to print deadlock infomation to the online.log. This should be possible to enable at the session level so if this is enabled for a session then if the session is involved as part of a deadlock the information will be written to the onl...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Override filesystem option for DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD and DSNISMKD jobs

For modules that create USS directories, the following modules exist: DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD, DSNISMKD They will all create directories under /usr/lpp/db2 or /usr/lpp/db2c10 (or another variant) It's possible to invoke these programs with a ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PAW - Download/Upload Colour Palette (IDs) for environment promotion

PAW Colour palettes can be manually re-created across environments but as each palette is created with a unique paletteId, the colour formatting is lost when we deploy between environments (colour palette needs to be manually re-selected after dep...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration