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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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Settings to prevent Cognos Controller Web user to click on Set to Ready

In Cognos Controller Web, user is able to click on set company status to ready when they multi select on the company. The user sometimes confuse other users submission with their own, thus accidentally set wrong submission to ready. So if possible...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

DB2 BLU non-unicode database support for non-identity collation sequence

We currently run on DB2 LUW 10.5.0.6 where our database is created using DB2 API with c-program.The major reason to do this is to support collating sequence similar to EBCDIC as DB2 z/OS is the source of our data.This makes the Database collating ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Tablespaces restore takes quite too long

I doubt that the concept for a tablespace restore includes reading all other tablespace blocks of the backup image.For me if i restore only a tablespace which is some 10% of the whole database the restore should consider that.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Align user roles with a hierarchy

Add a feature to the MDM role assignments to allow roles to be aligned with a level in a selected hierarchy - thus the user will not have access to items that do not fall within their branch of the hierarchy.
over 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Repair PAX to enable formulas in the Excel cell (such as SUBNM or DBRW,etc.)

If open Custom Report (or Dynamic Report) then the figures don’t refresh using PAX IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.46
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data flow Designer Allows only changed or new jobs to be published to git repository

Currently Data flow designer allows same version of job to be published to git multiple times which results redundant versions in git repository. DFD should only allow git publish if a job is changed or it's a new job
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Flexlm License controls

We would like to add the enhancement for flexlm license command to release a license from the RTM webui From RTM > License tab > Feature Checkouts > from the list of feature we would like to be able to release a license if neededHere is t...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

JSON_TABLE enhancement

JSON_TABLE UDF support in DB2 z/OS - while providing some support for parsing JSON documents does not have a robust functionality like JSON_TABLE in I series. Providing a more robust full functionality support - similar to XMLTABLE will allow easy...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release