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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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Global cursors in SPL

I would like the ability to define a global statement and global cursor that can be shared between routines within a single session. This would allow for modular code and create tremendous increases in performance and memoory usuage
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Enhance DB2 Load WHEN specification

Coding the DB2 Load utility into table WHEN statement to allow for several specified values, not just one, is found in a given field, would be a useful enhancement.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create New Locales or re-use/repurpose existing

Currently there are 10 locales (and a 'Reporting Design Language'). International business keep asking about Polish, Thai, Ukrainian, etc when we want to do build outs of modules or onboard a new region. Watson translate has helped with that, but ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Translation method D for intercompany currency differences

Issue: For our Group consolidation we are translating P/L figures using translation method D (Average Period rates). But on intercompany transactions Cognos Controller calculates and post currency differences based on translation method M (Average...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

HAA$JOPT support REXX for USER Exit Names

Reorging of TS with NPSI in the maintenance window causes increase elapsed time and shortage of DASD. Need the capability in HAA eliminate partitions over a certain row amount. We use 100M. Using this the reorgs do not abend. Each week the next se...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Downloading PAW book in any format captures only the segment visible in the frame & truncates the remaining areas.

The current book Sharing (PDF, Image, PPT) capability renders snapshot of PAW book that fits in the widget not all rows and columns.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

make FS/Db2 generate some good remote execution plans against big Mongo collections

Problem statement/pain points - refer to what elaborated in TS012101437 for details *for multi-way joins (>2), FS/Db2 currently always generate bad remote SQL execution plans involving full scan of some large collections w/ no filters pushed do...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Future consideration

Workflow Notification Audit Trail

As an administrator, we need to have an audit trail of all the notifications which are sent by the workflows. This will help us in providing the details of to whom and what notifications were sent by the OpenPages as part of the workflow execution...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration