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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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SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES should have a column containing the full text of the Db2 utility

SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES should have a column containing the full text of the Db2 utility that was executed. This allows the DBAs or sysprogs to see exactly what was executed for problem and other analysis. For example if someone has run a utility that...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Safer Payments should activate the key generated on KMIP server instead of manually activating the key on KMIP server.

We have to activate key created on KMIP servers manually each time before we can actually activate master key change. KMIP standard says it has to be managed by application. Need Safer Payments to activate the key before starting the master key ch...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Empty links in CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation

There are many 'empty' links/pages in the CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation when I search for topics. I limit the scope to CPLEX and IDE, but still get many, many blank results. I spend a great deal of time clicking through blank pages to fi...

Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under 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

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.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Burst Report - Dynamic Email Subject

The ability for bursting via email to have a dynamic email subject. Currently able to add HTML report to email body - would be useful to add a subject line in a similar way.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration