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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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Support for CSV Docs

CSV is a common file format for business data, it would be great if Discovery supported this format
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Delivered

License token distribution without share based calculation by LSF License Scheduler

In License Scheduler it is mandatory to configure Project mode or Cluster mode and specify the shares for all the defined Features.However, some license tokens are not tied to any project or cluster and should be distributed freely, without any fa...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Delivered

Unable to search by category name when selecting target catalogue

User unable to search by catalogue name when selecting target hierarchy. Can we change the search logic from “starts with” to “contains”. For e.g. if i then search “kate” as the level 2 target catalogue, the below results would be returned: Kate T...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Provide "SQL Reference" product manual for DVM

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, DVM does not provide "SQL Reference" kind of product manual which describes SQL syntax rules supported by DVM. Somebody said it is because DVM is co...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support ARCHIVE tables by V7 accelerator

Today, temporal tables are supported by v7 accelerator. Archive tables that was released later in DB2 v11 are not supported. We are asking for support ARCHIVE tables also in the accelerator.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

PAW: We need individual color palettes for waterfall charts

Currently there is only fixed colors for the waterfall charts. It needs to be possible to use custom colors and palettes there.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Option to fix the frames in next generation PAW

Currently a black frame is shown, when clicking on a widget. Especially when data entry ins done, this frame confuses users. It would be great to have an option to fix the widgets. Once fixed, no frame is shown and the dashboard looks like one piece.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Single source for User access details

The SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES view should be enhanced to include all privileges that a user has on the database. currently it reports most of them but does not include data about a user's access on Columns & SurrogateIDs . i.e from syscat.colauth &...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Delivered