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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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Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
16 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

IA GUI does not display decimal trailing 0s

IA GUI does not display decimal .00; if decimal .50, it displays only .5, but if decimal .15, it normally displays. when they check in the Database, they have a decimal .00, and then check on the thin client it has a decimal .0000000000 Can we mod...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
17 days ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
17 days ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Change of skipping rows rule, when calculation is in use.

Right now skipping rows doesn't work, when in use are f.e. two elements, where one of them is equal zero and a value of a second one is different than zero. When calculation in Workspace is executed and value is equal to zero, also when we see an ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
2 months ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Submitted

Timeout Setting in Planning Analytics as a Service

Currently not an option to adjust PAW/PAfE timeout settings in Planning Analytics as a Service like there is for IBM cloud models. In IBM cloud models, you can easily adjust this setting in PAW Admin. These are the defaults: https://www.ibm.com/su...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Applications: Configure default action of the Navigation Pane (Collapsed or Expanded)

Hi team, I'd like to attach single PAW asset (book - landing page) with the navigation (action) buttons ) to the Application tile and therefore I'd like the side Application Navigation Pane to be collapsed (or hidden) by default. This approach wil...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration