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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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istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Bullet charts need to incorporate both time and versions

Bullet charts should be able to show how a particular metric is tracking over time towards a specific target. At the moment this is not readily achievable in PAW. In the example screenshot attached, it is not possible to track actual revenues to a...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DANGER- Require Spreading Shortcuts to ensure Users intent - OR DATA WILL BE LOST

To perform a Proportional Spread in the older TM1 UIs (Custom Reports & Dynamic Reports) on had to lead the number with a "P" For example P1000 to proportionally spread data. In Explorations, Quick Reports and the Cube Viewer, you do not need ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: modify email body

In Event Studio, I would like to modify texts and email body when sending an email.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setup Automatic Alerts when Background Report Execution is Queued Up

when multiple reports are running at the same time as background process, lets say one of the bad report caused most of the reports into pending state. we would like to have a feature that can alert us indicating multiple reports are in pending st...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date

In V12 it was intended to extend the NPGTHRSH to empty tables and to tables with missing stats. The idea was to pick up the appropriate index which means: if a sort can be avoided choose this one, otherwise pick up the index, which has the most ma...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to specify uid/gid for db2instance owner in container

It would be beneficial to be able to specify uid/gid for db2instance in container. Example: DB2INSTANCE_UID (default ...) is to specify the uid of the Db2 instance owner DB2INSTANCE_GID (default ...) is to specify the gid of the Db2 instance owner...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration