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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.

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Provide a ZPARM to prevent creating new non UTS-tablespaces

I have converted all single table tablespaces to UTS, but some days later new non UTS-tablespaces were created, which I again converted. And again new ones were created, so this process could go for ever.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Standardize and allow LISTDEF PARTEVEL syntax for MODIFY STATISTICS utility

Currently MODIFY STATISTICS utility does not support LISTDEF with PARTLEVEL and throws an error like in example: LISTDEF DB2RK INCLUDE TABLESPACE DS0HUZX.S0HU37P PARTLEVEL(20) TEMPLATE COPYIC DSN(&SS..ICR.&DB..&TS..P&PA..&UQ.) ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve installation CLIST

I have just suffered over two days of Db2 Install Clist and can heartily recommend no-one use it to do a clean Install. The problems are myriad but the absolute number one is when it dies/crashes/abends all input data, apart from two or three rand...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

PostgreSQL current versions 16.x support

I ask you if it is possible to adding support for the latest release 15 and 16 already released 2 and 1 years ago, on the roadmap.
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Read an old COBOL program and document it in english such that a business user could read and understand it

With COBOL programmers retiring, clients struggle to identify critical business logic hidden in old COBOL code. This ability is also important for refactoring old COBOL code, creating APIs and Integration points, and in deciding which capabilities...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Delivered

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Delivered

Export Configuration for Role Templates via UI

With OpenPages v7.4 it is now possible to import a Role Template via the "Import Configuration" feature. However to export a single Role Template, the ObjectManager still has to be leveraged (requiring application server access). Being able to sel...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Review reports in Controller Web, general

In Controller Web it's possible to create Reports in the section "Review". Unfortunately every user has to create his/her own reports. Would be preferable if an admin user could create reports accessible for all users, trough the "Review" selection.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Print Objects to PDF

When trying to print to pdf, all fields within the object are not displayed, even if all sections are expanded. The functionality is useful during reviews and requests from regulators. At times the exports and Cognos reports cut off longer fields.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Delivered