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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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DB2 should allow offloaded backup of SMS tablespace to Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

I have an AVP customer who has a 3TB database upgraded from DB2 v8.x. Most user data tables are in SMS tablespaces. They wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager to take database backup and reduce the time for database restore. However, for SMS tables...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Read data by sourcing regardless of a local lim

Dear I want to explain the customer's request. Here is an execution server with a lim daemon. On this execution server, the customer wants to send queries to another cluster.(In this case, the LSF_LIM_PORT of both clusters is the same, because it ...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PA for Excel visible in the add/remove programs

Have PA for Excel listed in the add/remove programs or appear in the registry or Win32_product.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use of identify for database connections

When connecting to multiples databases with the "same" user, it is necessary to define the same user for each connection. But, when the password is changed for the user, then it is necessary to change the password for each connection. This could b...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Deny permission in "Manage Console" new surface Cognos 11 needed

Within the "old" Administration Console, you can choose a role/group (screenshot old admin console) and then by clicking "properties" in the action pane a dialog "set properties" opens. In this dialog, you choose a group/role to change/set permiss...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

odbc support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

When use redbrick ODBC on Red Hat Enterprise linux 7.1 we are getting ERROR ** (10127) Data type -8 out of range. (SQL-WS000) when we try to query char type. All works well on numeric data types. That is the reason we decided that we need updated ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create zparm item to change locksize default for implicit create table

Ibm, Due to our huge DW/Analytics environment in DB2 z we have a lot of tables created by users without details about tablespace and database, so these tables are created with default values of DB2. However, the locksize default is "ROW" and can n...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle 32bit 19c Client

Currently Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 only work with Oracle 12 client for CQM data sources. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1106607
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove timeout for member stop when applying fixpacks to pureScale

The installFixpack for pS automatically stops and starts the member or CF. But before stopping it waits for applications to finish their existing work and drain all connections on this member and start new work to other surviving members. If any a...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Urgent need to monitor database log utilization via db2pd

Urgent need to monitor database log utilization via db2pd
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration