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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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ForceReevaluationOfFeedersOnDimensionChange

Data got incorrectly calculated / underfed due to a dimension structure change, either: An element moved from another hierarchy to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. A new element added to a hierarchy/rollup where feeders pointed to. The...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Difficult reading of stage transformer in CP4D

Stage Variables: It is challenging to view all stage variables simultaneously and discern their interrelationships. Additionally, it is not possible to identify the types of fields in use. Output Derivation: The box for adding field derivations is...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance SQLCODE SQL3015N details

When we receive the following error message (during LOAD): SQL3015N An SQL error "-551" occurred during processing. we only know, that it is an authorization issue. The detail information (authorization-id, operation, object-name) are not availabl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

help in the cleaning of package versions

We'd like to have a new ZPARM to limit the max number of version for packages. Once this number is reached a new version replaces the older one. Otherwise a COMMAND like MODIFY to facilitate DBA in housecleaning
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan. This would allow more visibility into how plans change when they do change.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Add object names to onstat -k output

Add object names to onstat -k output this should include partition part name where apropriate.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Database sends (DBS) should fail

In Pafe when a user executes a DBS against a cell which is not writeable the formula returns the value of the cell. Not writeable means C level, read-only access, write access but locked. This is counter productive, the job of the formula is to...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration