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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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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.

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Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow genBSON to process a MULTISET datatype

Our problem is to get complex data from the server in the fastest way. Usually, getting data from a parent -> child relation ships, should be done programatically iterating thru multiple resultsets and getting data one by one. Network overhead ...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Commands should apply to result set only when using filtering

When using a command or function on a set of filtered objects, we would like to apply the command or function on the resultset, not the initial set.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

It should be chooseable OUTER of INNER JOIN in DV.

In DataVirtualization, we can create join view. But we can create only inner join view by using GUI. We know we can create outer join view by using SQL editor. But it is not acceptable from our customer.
over 4 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable Cp4d to run on AWS kubernetes

We are WEX users and now exploring CP4D. As we have very big environment, currently WEX manages all WEX components. Deploying CP4d adds another Openshift in addition RHEL. So the team has to support Cp4d, Openshift, RHEL and al add-ons. We are pla...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

No logging available for troublehsooting

With lot of excitements, we deployed CP4D on Openshift on-premise. Unfortunately we are uncovering issues one by one. One of key issue is troubleshooting. Example when discovery crawl shows no document, there is no information about why no documen...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Provide functionality to pause a cluster to suspend runtime charges when the cluster is not in use

Sometimes, I only need to use a cluster for a one-off task that may run for a few days or more. I would like to be able to pause these clusters when I am not using them to suspend charges. The clusters usually have some configuration that I do man...
almost 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration