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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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Improvement of FlashCopy Load on a PBR

When loading with LOG NO a PBR at tablespace level, all partitions will be copied by FlashCopy and not only the ones that were updated. But when FLASHCOPY NO is specified, only the partitions that were update will get COPY PENDING flag. The FlashC...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Hyperlinks Directly Embedded on CA Dashboard

We would like to embed hyperlinks on the dashboard so we can have a direct link for our users to click into. We have thousands of records with unique identifiers linking them back to our CRM platform. It would be a lot easier to embed a hyperlink ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Planned for future release

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Automatic backup for PAW assets/ Manage PAW snapshots programatically

Currently, the data tier can be backed up by launching .bat scripts. (to create a zip) PAW reports are totally managed in the docker content store and we have no programmatic access to the creation of Snapshots. Snapshots can only be managed throu...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Stop package invalidation after ALTER MAXPARTITIONS

These days in an agile world we have to ALTER PBG spaces on-the-fly to raise the MAXPARTITIONS value. Sadly this ALTER, even though it is an immediate ALTER, sets all dependent packages to VALID = 'N' which is, of course, a disaster.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Ability to create a default filter for My Tasks tab

Right now My Tasks tab is not configurable. Users request the ability to create and save a default filter for the My Tasks tab. Scenario: users may be assigned to objects in a workflow stage for a long period of time. Eg. a "monitoring" stage that...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review
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Support of RUNSTATS of range-partitioned tables on single partition

RUNSTATS on range-partitioned tables always runs on allpartitions. If all indexes are partitioned, a RUNSTATS of a singlePartition would be helpful.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration