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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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Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add COALESCE function

Add a COALESCE function to Informix just like DB and many other databases have it.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

DB2 for z/OS please allow CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE statement (and FUNCTION)

I would like DB2 for z/OS to allow CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE (and FUNCTION)Apparently, DB2 for LUW allows CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Oracle connector support for AWS RDS

A lot of our source systems are moving to AWS RDS for Oracle. We use datastage 11.7 to read from these source systems and load our datawarehouse also an RDS Oracle database.
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

CDC Replication from IMS to IDAA

Enable replication (Change Data Capture) from IMS to IDAA in the same manner as CDC for DB2
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

Removal of ephemeral port use for sysplex/dvipa monitoring from Db2 DDF

In addition to the ports configured in BSDS (INADDR_ANY), Db2 DDF opens an additional ephemeral TCPIP port. It binds to the DVIPA address and requests an ephemeral port be assigned, the number is randomly chosen from a pool by TCPIP.This feature i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Eliminating swap as the factor in the threshold definition

Using the Smart Memory limits in LSF with the parameter "LSB_MEMLIMIT_ENF_CONTROL" , there should be an option to define inly MEM threshold and exclude the SWAP threshold.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Hide or show only specific options in the menu bar in a Planning Analytics Workbook

We would like to see an option to toggle the menu bar on and off in Planning Analytics Workbook as well as being able to select what options on the menu bar a user can see. Would also like to have this option be specific by book, so the author can...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered