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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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Menu items in multiple places on Task based UI

We have some objects that are used in multiple modules. Therefore we require some objects to be listed in more than one place on the menu system. On the standard UI this is how it works but in the Task based UI only the first occurrence of the obj...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Rules for Creation Views to allow for multiple active creation views (New Task Based UI)

The ability to create creation views based on a profile
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Planned for future release

Denodo support

We need Denodo support for DataStage using the Denodo JDBC drivers. Currently JDBC can be used, but connecting to Denodo is not supported by IBM.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Provide a command to display the logstream starting point timestamp

The log scan starting point for a LOGSTREAM is based on all files defined to that LOGSTREAM , that value seem to be also store on the subscription Bookmark. We will like that starting point to be externalized via a command , at this moment that va...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Implement more granularity processing on "CORRELID" to force more parallelism at Q Apply

We have an application with a high criticality and high workload running Q Replication in a bidirectional mode.This application uses CICS transactions, TSO Batch, Java Batch, local zWAS and distributed transactions as well.And because batch jobs c...

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Adjusting the placement position of standard Workspace icons

<AsIs> Currently, it is not possible to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace. <ToBe> I want to change the position of the "Update" and "Rebuild Book" icons placed in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Unload LOCK YES Drain Writers instead of executing LOCK TABLE

When executing HPU in Native MODE with parameters ULLOCK = YES, ULLOCKTE = LOCK and ULLOCKMO = NATIVE_ONLY HPU executes a EXEC SQL LOCK TABLE. Sometimes table being locked is in a TS whose a IX TS lock was left in DB2 due to this table be used in ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration