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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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Data in the native format but text as English in TM1web & pmpsvc portal without changing the region/language settings

Sometimes user have the data in excel (may be some extract) and when they try to paste that data on web it doesn’t allow due to web having ‘.’ as decimal separator but excel having ‘,’ as decimal separator. So, to do that they first have to modify...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add table function to "pretty print" explained statement

Db2 allows to install the EXPLAIN TABLES using a procedure (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.explain.doc/doc/t0059594.html) There are different ways to generate an access plan, i.e., to explain a s...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 3 Not under consideration

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Isolation Level to UR on Read-Only DBs / Tablespaces / Partitions

Databases, Tablespaces, and Partitions can be started in Db2 in read-only (RO) mode. This allows user transactions to access data in these objects only for read (SELECT). Therefore no modification to this data can be made. However, when accessing ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Db2 history of installs/updates including date

For auditing and compliance purposes, Db2 needs to easily make the following information available:- Database Version, Release, ModPack, FixPack (including security special builds)- Database Date/Time of the creation and subsequent updates- Databa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Expose the Change of Field Properties like (Sort,Usage) for FM Package as Source for Cognos Analytics Dashboard

We are Currently Using IBM Cognos Analytics 11-R10 in our environment, For Dashboard Development we are using FM-DQM Package as source and we are facing issue in changing the query item properties for example : changing the sort options, aggregate...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS with exception consideration

All DB2 customers use RUNSTATS. The RUNSTATS results are used by the DB2 optimizer to determine optimal access plans. In 99.999 percent of all cases this is not a problem. However, there are some objects (tablespaces / indices) for which a RUNSTAT...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration