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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 support for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW syntax

I've seen that Db2 LUW and other types of databases support the syntax to do CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. This can be useful as you don't have to have a separate statement to drop a view before rerunning a create statement. I had a new DB2 DBA on our t...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

List port being used by SQL statement/user-ID

Currently, it is difficult to find the port number that a SQL statement or user-ID is using. Sure we can get from SMF or some other way but that is cumbersome and takes time for batch processing of the data. If CQM could show the data we could see...
6 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Create Datasets/Dashboards from an existing Cognos Report

Create a dataset directly from an existing Cognos report and refresh it on a schedule.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication

The Problem: We have enterprise wide roll out of active directory authentication and Currently Jgate does not support it. Proposed solutions: Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication The Benefits/Value: We will have all the bene...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Change size of the label KPI

We want to have the ability to change the label size in a KPI.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration