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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide IDAA ‘rows fetched’ metrics in Query Monitor

QM reports exec count of 0 for the Prepare, Open and Fetches when data is coming from an accelerator. Only rows fetched directly from DB2 are counted in CQM.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0

Allow join of base temporal table to archive enabled tables

Temporal and archive enabled tables both provide valuable features depending on the use case for the data. We've implemented both types of tables in our Production environment and had initially implemented temporal tables for one of our most criti...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

HA functionality for Datastage Cartridge

Background •In general, the best practice to ensure high availability for OpenShift cluster is to spread the masters and workers across three AZ’s in a cloud. But for DataStage, it only makes sense if the platform allows multiple conductors spread...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

JDBC Gateway import uses /tmp

On JGate the export and Import of Personal Data and Repositories and JDBC Library is an activity that needs to be done for several reasons. When importing the settings.zip file a fileuplaod* directory is created in tmp, this has caused space short...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide HASH scalar function support in query acceleration

Our data science team heavily user HASH scalar function in day to day business in complex SQL processing. Unfortunately, it is not supported in current IDAA version 7.5.12. and forces to route to native DB2z. It takes long time and requires heavy ...
10 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Db2 exporter

Kindly help build Db2 native and/or Sql based exporter. This exporter should be developed in such a way that It should be non-intrusive & no performance impact to the databases which are being monitored, Similar to nosql db metrics exporter av...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console / Monitoring 0 Future consideration