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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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Altering the default value of a global variable

Global Variables: A global variable can be created with a default value. Each session that uses it will then instantiate a version of that global variable, with the default value and any change in the value is limited in scope to its unit-of-work....
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

IBM Database Management Console Migration

Hi All, We have learned that the IBM DMC(Database Management Console) doesn't have any inbuilt migration opportunities presented by itself. The migration that involves moving DMC from one host to another with minimal downtime and configuration...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

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

Restful API call needs to support array data types

Currently the RESTFUL API Db2 service does not support array data types as part of the call statement.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add support to use Cognos Analytics via Android browsers (touch interface)

Provide the ability to connect to Cognos Analytics via a browser and use touch to navigate my content on Android devices.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration