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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Column header on excel extractions

The extraction to Excel function directly from IBM PA is heavily used, so that the pivot function can be used to in Excel for better flexibility. However, the output of the extract does not show the dimension in the header of the columns, which me...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IIDR Apply Engine for Kafka should pick up and inject client.id via kafkaproducer.properties configuration.

See case number: TS002220107 for details. As detailed in the case client.id is read from kafkaproducer.properties. The property injects into ConsumerConfig for all data channels. The property does not inject into ProducerConfig for data chann...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Workbooks timing in PAW but corresponding request in the TM1 admin server do not get cancelled

Currently our PAW timeout setting are set to 180 seconds. We are seeing workbooks time out and throw various errors in PAW but when we look at the TM1Admin server activity via TM1Top. We are noticing the corresponding process ( for the timed out P...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend support of IBM i Datatypes

To extend the support for DB2 for IBM i data types, including BINARY (BINCHAR), VARBINARY, XML NCHAR, NVARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA.
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CREATE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE ITEMS

When selecting more than one Data Item, the options Explore -> 'Create' is not available. If only a single item is selected instead, the 'Create' option is available.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view. If we choose All Roots then we will be able to do the search for all members. Default view not pulling any results if we search for leaf attribute. SEV 1 IBM Case was opened for thi...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

db2caem should support 'SET CURRENT QUERY OPTIMIZATION = N'

For diagnostic of Db2 performance problems the tool db2caem can be very helpful. Especially if a particular query plan should be compared using different optimization levels. Using db2caem the optimization level must be specified by embedded opti...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration