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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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Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.

New fields would be added to the instrumentation facility for IFCID 148 and IFCID 3.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Lift 32K limit on SQL queries/results

SQL statements that exceed 32K in their collective data types currently crash. For example, if you select 10 LVARCHAR columns of 5000 each, totaling 50000 you get an error, crashing the application. This limit is way too low and it is causing our ...
over 4 years ago in Informix 1 Functionality already exists

Generate SW ID Tag for Trial Installs

Activating a license with db2licm generates a SW ID Tag, which can then be recognized by an ILMT software scan for license reporting.Currently a trial edition is not generating a SW ID Tag, so they cannot be discovered by LMT.As it is important fo...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Lineage - display query subject filter name rather than 'Embedded Filter#'

In IBM Cognos Lineage filters defined in Query Subjects in Framework Manager packages are displayed as e.g. 'Embedded Filter 1' rather than displaying the defined name of the filter in the package. As this information is not visible for the lineag...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Gateway access to Salesforce from DataStage

Currently we are using DataPower as gateway between DataStage and Salesforce, but we have issue reported on the SR. It is considered that issue is related with response message rewriting so we want solution without rewriting the message.Our expect...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Provide source variable for Chart legends, labels and other elements

In a multi-lingual environment we need to change the titles, legends and axes labels based on the user language. Currently the only way to do this is with Conditional Block which makes maintenance challenging.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to hide date of report

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, the date under a report was hidden. In Cognos Analytics 11.1.3 the date of when a report is created is shown under the report, as shown in the attached image.For some of our users this date is confusing be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Template to populate output datasets such as PUNCHDDN to utilize PDSE's

If I use a listdef for an unload utility, I am forced to create a separate dataset for each tablespace in the listdef for PUNCHDDN's Template. I am requesting the ability to specify a PDSE in the PUNCHDDN and each tablespace would create a like na...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Oracle fastload Refresh method does not do intermediate commits

When doing a Refresh to Oracle using the fastload method, no intermediate commits are done. That means that all records are loaded to the target table before committing the transaction (and the fastload_refresh_commit_after_max_operations paramete...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Graceful recovery from any error with /tmp in install of CDC engine on Linux/Unix

Currently the installer scripts for CDC on Linux and Unix uses /tmp by default for unpacking objects deposited on the server at the start of the install process. The installer deals gracefully with the case that /tmp does not have enough free stor...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration