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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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Sum row in PAfE

A totals line is desired in the exploration in PAfE. Currently, only totals columns are possible.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Command confirmation in joblog of DB2MSTR.

DB2 has many commands which display or alter the status of something. There are a lot of distinct environments from which the commands can be executed (z/OS console, DSN session, TSO DSN command processor, IMS or CICS terminal, special STPs, IFI-i...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The ability to view hosts assigned to queues of the same name in the remote cluster when querying bqueues -l

In a multi-cluster environment,When there is a queue of the same name between the local cluster and the remote clusterI hope the local cluster will see HOSTS information of the same name queue of the remote cluster. In a multi-cluster environment,...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bhosts <single hostname@remote_clustername>

In a multi-cluster environment,bhosts does not support specifying single hostname of remote cluster. projectjiwoo@vwpm224ev16 ~ % bhosts hpcmgr0007hpcmgr0007: Bad host name, host group name or cluster name If we run bhosts <single hostname@remo...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

IKC reporting to Google Big Query

Please add Google Big Query as an option for IKC reporting in addition to the existing DB2, Oracle, and PostGres options.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration