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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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Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future 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

New selector widget - possibility to change font color, font family, font size

It would be a nice enhancement for the new selector widget to be able to change font color, font family and font size in order to create more layout options when it comes to dark themed books (font color) and to create a more consistent dashboard ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export Format

When exporting from OpenPages, the only available format is 1997-2003 which is incompatible with Encryption tools etc. Whilst the file can be resaved as a more current format (xlsx), a better user experience would be to have this format available ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1

Conditional data formatting in data modules and dashboards

It is a common requirement to display a Crosstab given a set of PnL accounts such as "Revenue, Bill of Materials, and Bill of Materials as a % of Revenue." There is currently no way in Data Modules or Dashboards to conditionally format a values da...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have relative default date selection on filters

When a date filter is added it is not possible to have a default data selection. This could for example be the last 90 days.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically change page view in reporting

Currently in Cognos Analytics, when I change the Start page view in Reporting, I need to save the report, exist, and re-open to see the new page view. I understand it's called 'start page view', however it'd be great if this updated on the fly rat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 - ALTER TABLE ROTATE

Auslöser :PMR 28789The deadlock occurs between the ALTER TABLE ROTATE FIRST TO LAST, which invalidates pkg dependent on the table and triggers an auto rebind ( Thealter table process obtained a row lock on SYSTSTAB and waiting for row lock on SYS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

GOC - ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); generating TS drop/create instead of an alter

DB2 V12 allows ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); to be materialized with an Alter. GOC is using old DB2 rules which drop/create TS.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration