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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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Ability to adapt destination package path when import reports

When we export from DEV environment a report which link with a specific DEV package path,we want to import this report in PROD environment where the package is stored on a different path than DEV.The name of the package don't change between the tw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List Report - Display "Total Pages Number" with the Page Number

List Report should be able to display the Page No/Total Page No's along with the buttons "Top", "Page Up", "Page down", "Page bottom". This should be the basic feature and very useful feature. Example Page 1/10, 2/10 .....10/10. By knowing the Tot...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements for Fast Apply

We are new to IBM Fast Apply and have been using a competitor product. With IBM we are experiencing some pain points and the tool is frankly not up to standards with what we purchased. HIGH priority!
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Security enhancement - support of roles for GRANT SETSESSIONUSER privilege

After the change of the security setup in DB2 database to a role based model there is still a part where some rights can only be granted to groups instead of roles. This forces admins to maintain to sets of security setups making a complex Task ev...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration