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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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Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Automatically add users to PAW

Hi Team, On Planning Analytics we have to first add the users to Planning Analytics Workspace and then add the users to TM1 instance. Instead of adding the users at both the place, if we add the user in the TM1 instance can the user be automatica...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Renaming of file attachments in Event Studio email task

We are using even studio to generate output from multiple reports and send them in single mail to with all attachments. When we attach report outputs, it is autometically adding locale information as suffix which users don't want to see. Also, we ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy other users my folder content to team content

As an administrator , while moving code from one environment to other or upgrading, we need to copy the user's my folder content into public folders/team content and move it back to my folders after the code deployment. I dont see this option in 1...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function for Informix database

Informix does not have a UTC/GMT timestamp conversion function. Requirement :---------------------------------1) Cast function to convert from a particular datetime to UTC datetime based on the current timezone2) Cast function to convert from sysd...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Add the new IF EXIST functionality to db2look

The new syntax IF EXISTS for CREATE and DROP TABLES (see https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/DB24LUW-I-259) should also be generated by db2look on demand. This would help and simplify migration scenarios with db2look. This should also be av...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on subscription (vs schedule) feature

Existing documentation on the subscription feature describes how to enable subscriptions, but doesn't clearly explain how it works or how it is different from schedules. I learned the following from opening a support ticket. When asked if IBM coul...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration