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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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Show percentage complete on ontape restore

Would like to see the percentage complete when running a restore with ontape. Currently this is only shown when doing an archive.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add support for database SINGLE_USER mode access

Time to time there is requirement to be the only user on the database like drop and create database, but there are also users with system authorizations connected to database. Or there is product (even from IBM) like Maximo: https://www.ibm.com/su...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add support for INFORMATION_SCHEMA views

In our company we are using PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and DB2. All of database except Db2 support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There is pretty easy to write at least basic cross-database SQL to get info from database catalog tables except in Db2....
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Export/Import - Distribution

We need the ability to distribute a data module to our client base where the database name it references may change from what we have developed the data module against. This will most likely happen in a multitenant, cloud environment, but could ha...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 FTB analytics function Db2 V12

Started last weeks activating FTB in development systems by using ZPARM DSN6SPRM.INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL. Tried to get information using -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXMEMORYUSAGE) LIMIT(*) -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT). i thought i will get deeper to it b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CPA005 Transaction Rejected in FTM Base but Accepted by Gateway in PFS layer (Refer WorkItem Work Item 114946)

During AFT application development, we found that FTM Base rejected transactions where getting accepted by Gateway in PFS i.e. FTM Base Rejections are not considered by Gateway for updating a payment's status. We raised a RTC defect 114946 for thi...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

Dataset as source for Dynamic Cubes

We need fast dimensional models, for dashboarding and reports etc. it is not always big data and perfect star schemas, but with datasets and uploaded files, Cognos Analytics would have a great boost for the dimensional model using them in Cube Des...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Changing Distributed Keys

In de new IDAA it took more than 6 days to change distributed keys, and then we cancelled the proces..it would be nice, that this proces can finish in max load time, in our case 33 hours. Why we need it , it could be in the future needed to change...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration