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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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Federation Support for Microsoft Access Database

Most of the retail customers use MS Access for maitaining small to medium databases and would like us to consider them while developing solutions. Unfortunately DB2 LUW 11.5.7 does not have any federation support for MS Access. We have to do a rou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Functionality already exists

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor thread causing DB2 abend

Hi Team, We had a Db2 system abend for production environment because of QUERY ON BLOCKING_THREADS has cancelled . We had a business impact for this. If we can monitor such thread proactively before it get cancel, then it may save us from DB2 aben...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add SET CURRENT QUERY ACCELERATION WAITFORDATA setting into Profile Table in Db2 for z/OS

When Waitfordata setting is required for HTAP queries in IDAA for dynamic SQLs, waitfordata should be defined either in zPARM or as a register setting in application before the SQL statement which requires application change. It would be better to...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Delete functionality in the import specifications in Controller Web

It would be useful to have the delete functionality in the import specifications of Controller Web, similar as it is available in Controller Client.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Functionality already exists

Change the PAW waiting icon

We want to heavily use PAW to present reports. However, as PAW syncs across books, users MUST know to give PAW a second to sync. The WAIT icon is far too transparent/translucent in PAW. Make it obvious that the user needs to wait. Here's a use c...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

An environmental variable that sets the database to use "Enforced" as a default for constraints.

For some shops, constraints are always created as "Enforced". This used to be the default behavior, but the default behavior was changed to "Not Enforced" in Db2 V11.Creating an environmental variable would allow the teams to choose the default be...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Have DO for DSX not only in DSXL but also in Watson Studio

DO for DSX help DSXL customers deploy optimization. With Watson Studio we have less flexibility to do that. We should have that available to ease adoption of Decision Optimization by Watson Studio customers
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Support InfoSphere DataStage 11.3 on Windows 10

Bank of Canada is planning to upgrade all Windows platform to Windows 10 by the end of year. The DataStage client tools currently are not supported on Windows 10. This limitation will have impact to the Windows upgrade project.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Action button : Get selected DBRW value for TI process

Action buttons allow to get the "selected DBRW" value to send it to the target workbook. It would be useful to have the same option for TI process run from an action button.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Functionality already exists