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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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New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Assign value to a Parameter from a Report Studio Query

In a Report Studio, have the ability to assign a value to a parameter, where the value is calculated in a query.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Put quick references to help menu

The quick references area takes up space, but it is present on the home screen and is not perinating. Even if the proxi company allows access to youtube, once we have done the tour we come back more. And the presence of this zonne annoys - my cust...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

List interactivity, and chart filtering and highlighting segment.

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a segment in a chart
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User Groups, Folder visibility

Folder visibility Should work the same way as single user privileges. Now if you make a user group - everyone in the group can see all the folders and workbooks (though not the data itself). This makes view cluttered and users belonging to ANY gro...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide an easy way to de-allocate the underlying Linear dataset when needed without dropping and recreating table spaces and index spaces.

Component: DDL? Data Definition Language? There are cases when a table has change its usage and may remain empty for a very long time or not use anymore but still required to be defined in Db2. In this case, it would be good to have a better way o...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand the scope of the RENAME DDL.

Moving forward with self-provisioning for developers, adherence to the company's naming standards and rules may be a necessity. The RENAME command should apply to table spaces, table schema, table, index, triggers, views, constraints, etc. This wa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

cleanup of ER structures if ER was not in use prior to utilizing 'cdr migrate server'

If Enterprise Replication did not exist prior to the execution of cdr migrate server, then the utility should as its last step, at user option, dismantle and remove all Enterprise Replication structures in the background that were created to do th...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration