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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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Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

I want to execute an arbitrary process when the workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.

<AsIs> Currently, the only way to start a process is to click a button or execute it as a job. <ToBe> I want to be able to execute an arbitrary process when the Workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Scanning the content of uploaded Excel file

This subject has been brought to our attention by our clients, they need to make sure uploaded files are scanned for malicious scripts or codes. We deal with many banks and its part of the audit.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Sparse Index - sub select in where condition

The Where possibility in the Sparse Index is great. To get more flexibility it would be great if you include the possibility to use the sub select in the where condition. This can replace fixed values. Thanks.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Allow Exclude criteria to be directly specified in ADB2GEN

We are driving automation by dynamically building a list of objects to 'GEN' the DDL for. However we also need to dynamically build a list of objects to exclude. Currently ADB2GEN only allows reference to a pre existing exclude which has to be cre...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Future consideration