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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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UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
13 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Inhance Readme in project as guide for new collaborators

The Readme in the project overview allows to guide collaborators new to a project as widely used in Github. However users miss it easily due to its inferior location and small size in the Overview page. Then they can not directly read it in the Ov...
14 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

To support the creation of a Db2 range-partitioned target table if the source table is a Db2 range-partitioned table and the target table does not exist when creating a Q Subscription.

According to the current design, when the target table does not exist, Q Replication can automatically create the target table based on the source table schema when creating a Q Subscription. However, Q Replication always creates a normal table, r...

DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration
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Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Filter by Type in the Data folder through the Drive Explorer

This was available in perspectives and helps in several ways. You can select a certain type ie feeders and right click properties and get the total space consumed by your feeders. Also it helps just to narrow down the number of files you have to s...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

IKC usability

It is requested not to display empty ‘custom new property’ in the overview of a catalog customised object (i.e. Assets or Governance Artifact: custom assset, Report, BT, Category etc) Imagine to have the need to manage "objects" that have a lot of...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Removing excess space from the report in PAW

Problem Statement: We have developed a dynamic active form report for users, allowing them to select parameters such as Year and Department. When users select “Total Departments”, the report dynamically adjusts and utilizes the entire available sp...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted