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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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DB2 should allow offloaded backup of SMS tablespace to Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

I have an AVP customer who has a 3TB database upgraded from DB2 v8.x. Most user data tables are in SMS tablespaces. They wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager to take database backup and reduce the time for database restore. However, for SMS tables...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DQM Query Execution Time Limit

Implement a governor to limit the execution time of DQM Queries, since currently there is no governor that applies to DQM Queries, as per documentation and feedback from PMR 07802,499,000. The customer VF Services (9446150) has a business requirem...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

odbc support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

When use redbrick ODBC on Red Hat Enterprise linux 7.1 we are getting ERROR ** (10127) Data type -8 out of range. (SQL-WS000) when we try to query char type. All works well on numeric data types. That is the reason we decided that we need updated ...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

suppress fast repeating event from running alarmprogram for each event

Recently we had an event "storm" due to many events "Lock table overflow - user id 12396, session id 716985". Due to this the alarmprogram was executed little more than 97000 in a short time. I am aware of the mechanism that is in the alarmprogram...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give support

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give full support for it in Workspace. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-reporting-scripting_techniques-page644/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dropping Primary Keys

Allow the following syntax for dropping a primary key : alter table table-name drop primary key;
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Accessibility features to sample reports.

Would like to see at least some sample reports where accessibility features are fully implemented and those samples identified in the documentation.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS to Cognos data download allow for selection of database connection when multiple configured

SPSS can use a Cognos package as a data source. If the published Cognos package references a data source with multiple active database connections then SPSS fails with error; "Failed to render report spec". The true issue is a data source with amb...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

CDC agent on z/OS for IDAA to handle very large transaction robustly

CDC risks bringing down partition when handling very large transactions.Change CDC to handle large transactions, eg by writing data to a spill file if allocated memory is not sufficient, like other CDC implementations.This CDC agent is part of the...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration