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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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Instrumentation to identify uncommitted catalog/directory resource holders

DB2 for z/OS indicates the ability to support online migration. We have some applications that are less well behaved than others regarding taking frequent commits. It is too difficult to identify the applications that would cause an online migrati...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Select "Forward match" or "Pattern match" in the field of "Filter condition" in the Report screen

In the field of "Filter Condition" in the Report Screen, when we search the item by "Pattern match" we have to use "%" in front of "search word". Some users find it difficult to use"%" .This function was included in Cognos BI 10.2, but it is gone ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve/enhance conditional formatting experience

It would be great if conditional formatting is made easy. It's not an intuitive experience even for some other vendors.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

bjobs -o all

Currently there is a large list of -o options, which are hugely beneficial. We have a large bjobs -o <long list> -json report that is frequently run for metrics and query reduction (to provide an API to get cached data) but we have to update...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 3 Delivered

TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE for SECPORT

Startup messages when DB2 is brought up will display the status of the standard DRDA DDF port via the DSNL519I message:DSNL519I -DXXX DSNLILNR TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE 567 FOR DOMAIN domain.com AND PORT 999. DB2 does not display an equivalent mes...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in CA Dashboarding

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in Cognos Analytics Dashboarding. We would like to set visual 'markers' for targets/goals or 'pace to goal' that are embedded within a visual component (e.g. bar graph)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

PAW - Treatment of signage in Visualization

Exploration view shows negative values in parenthesis, but all the other visualization options seem to display with a negative sign.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Auto-pruning for automatic DB2 Backups

The DB2 LUW automatic backup creation, which is enabled by the parameters AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML, currently does not consider the db2 automatic pruning functionality, configured by ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

SQL/PA - Going from ANLPFILE to various options causes package location to be blank where it was populated previously.

Don't blank it out.
over 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Portworks DR for CP for Data 4.5

Portworks DR was completely supported for CP for Data 3.5. It is necessary to keep this option in CP' scope. Recall that we have customers that are still using it, we don't have to take out Portworks. The most critical case is BAC. They are the l...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered