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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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Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

PAW - Subset behavior

PAW can only refer to an element name of a subset and not to index . If in a paw book we use a named subset that presents the current month , for example MAR from a subset that contains MAR FEB JAN if the next month we update the subset with APR,M...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

IF function - Account mappings Controller Web

Cognos Classic includes a feature that maps an account code from an imported to a TB code based on whether it is a Dr or Cr. This is executed through an IF function which directs the balances to the correct Cognos code based on the imported value....
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

A DB cfg parameter to set the default tablespace to prevent objects ending up in the wrong TS

When not explicitly set in the CREATE TABLE statement, a newly created table will end up in the last created tablespace. A lot of customers have problems with this for several reasons. They have no control over table placement when using a framewo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Dark mode for Planning Analytics

Just a nice feature to have if IBM can enable dark mode so that TI processes can be developed much like VS Code UI and easy on the eyes as shown below. What I found was utilising the javascript but would be nice to have it permanently.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need to support inplace reorg on partitioned table with global indexes

This is critical in a 2 sense; 1) Performance The customer has many range-partitioned table with global indexes and most of them left unreorganized because INPLACE REORG on Inplace reorg on range-partitioned table with a global index is not suppor...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

db2look with -printdbcfg must support parameters with "automatic" value

To clone a database and all its objects IBM recommend to use the db2look utility. If you use the -printdbcfg to clone the db configuration too the db2look utility generate the parameter values in the update commands but without the "automatic" val...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted