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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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Rename column should be possible if View is on table

We encountered that Rename column is not possible if a View esists on the appropriate table. We would like to exploit this new function (Rename Column), but we have views, which does not allow that. We already have a similar requirement MR02141152...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add ipv6 capability to CDC.

Please add support to the z/OS CDC system started task that runs on the mainframe which is the Db2 replication source. The target is Oracle and we already have the Linux CDC instance working with IPv6 to Oracle. We are requesting the IPv6 protocol...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Replication of user logs across all instances when signing onto Controller SaaS

Controller SaaS is currently presented through IBM Citrix with automated load balancing applied between Citrix servers when users connect. This results in user log information being stored against different servers, which in turn creates an incons...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Incompatible platform variation of Db2 software

Our mission-critical system on the IBM i 7.1 has been in operation. But we are promoting the project that upgrades our IBM i 7.1 to i 7.3, because of software withdrawal and support discontinuance.So that also DBMS become upgrade to Db2 for i V7R3...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Enable 2-Factor Authentication for Remote DB2 LUW Connections

Provide an option within DB2 LUW to require 2-factor authentication using a password composed of a personal PIN plus a token code, provided by a vendor such as RSA.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Customize PAW Welcome Page

Current welcome page does not allow for customization on the Overview Video section where it says Welcome to Planning Analytics with Watson ! Can you please consider allowing admin users in PAW to: change the black background to another color resi...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration