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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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Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files

If the critical files of Db2 damage, e.g. by erroneously deletion, file system corruption Db2 will no longer be available (#usable). Since some of the critical files are permanently updated a restore of the critical files does solve the problem. A...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Provide DROP ... IF EXISTS functionality

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). Customer would like to see DROP ... IF EXISTS functionality supported, similar to the way it is currently supported by SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Delivered

Searching on Nulls

We would like to have the ability on all of the filtered list views when using the Advanced Filter, to be able to search on fields that contain a null value in the DB. In addition we'd like to be able to filter on all values that are Not Null. Thi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Update PDF manuals for v14.10.<latest> and keep in sync

The PDF manuals have not been updated since v12.10.FC7!
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

PAW Action Button Process Search Capability

When using Action button in PAW to run a process there is no existing way to search for it. We have to scroll down and select it manually. It would be really helpful if we can get a feature to search the process. I'm attaching sample screenshot fo...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Controller Web - Freeze Panes in Free Forms

In Controller Classic you have the possibility to select ”Fixed scroll area” and “Viewable area” defined in the Layout Options in Controller Classic.”. This or similar functionality is needed to make Controller Web practical for the end user. As i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Option to override LOAD utility maintaining MAXASSIGNEDVAL for identity columns in Db2 V12

Our existing process to move data from one region to another using the LOAD utility stopped working on tables with generated by default as identity key column after we upgraded to Db2 12. The new LOAD enhancement to maintain MAXASSIGNEDVAL is caus...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Delivered

Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for ReportDue to lack of this feature - every time it causes to Re-design the Dashboard if ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enter comments from a drop down list in Controller Web

In Controller Web, both in the standard and free forms, a pop up window is used for entering a comment on a account. In some cases, it is great to have a list with predefined options of comments instead of letting the reporter enter a free text. I...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

There should be custom message on workflow validations

When a validation is added in the workflow action (OP 8.2) - the validation error displayed on the UI does not represent the actual error that stopped the user from proceeding with the workflow action. Sometimes the error message is so meaningless...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Delivered