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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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Provide option to offload VSAM files in DSNTIAUL format

We run query monitor across 4 plexes and 9 LPARS and many DB2 systems. We do 'not' load the QM performance data to each system, rather we offload the data from each LPAR, then consolidate the load of the data to one of our non-prod performance war...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make a package default for all reports in cognos 11.09

Set a package to be default package for all the new reports for Cognos 11.09.Currently there is no option that can set a particular package to be default package for all the new reports in Cognos 11.In Cognos 11 Users always have to add package ma...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for starting and stopping CP4D

I know that WKC offline backup is no longer supported in ver 4.6. In my environment, the "cpd-cli backup-restore quiesce" command was outputting an error for the wkc-foundationdb pod and cpd-cli was unable to stop CP4D. I am verifying development ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

DataStage FlowDesigner add support for multi invocation of a job

DataStage Designer/Director support Multiple Invocations but the FlowDesigner (v11.7.1.1) does not support it. Please provide support for multi invocations for Sequences and parallel Jobs. That's a important feature that should not be thrown away ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support of MultiByteCode for IBM i Agent

We have to store data from different IBM i Systems from several countries, with diffent local encodings (DE/AT = CCSID 273, NO = CCSID 277, BE = 500, ...) into one target schema. Therefore we descided to use for character fields the data type NCHA...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Ability to create folders to organize queries in reporting

The query screen in Report Studio/Report Authoring can get difficult to manage and understand in complex multi-query reports. Having some organizational features, like the ability to create folders to contain related queries, would make this signi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a new partition if a LOB-tablespace gets a new partition in a UTS PBG

Hi Sometime the base-table is very small whereas the corresponding lob-tablespace can get bigger and bigger. So the base tablespace remains at one partition whereas the log tablespace can run against the limit of 255 datasets
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Peak / Non-Peak periods to be defined in hh:mm

As an administrator in cognos administration add option to define peak and non/peak periods in server (services) properties not only in hours but also in minutes like hh:mm. Hours only is a basic limitation for this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration