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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Scheduling via e-mail

As dashboard can be exported in PDF and can also be sent via email, it would be great for our users if Dashboard could also be schedules and users can receive it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

No Web server Monitoring for Planning Analytics

We don't have visibility about Web Servers performance, and it would be good to have more information about memory consumption (at least).
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Setting the data type in the data asset node of Modeler Flow

When handling numeric data in CSV, values with a large number of digits are judged to be invalid records because they fall outside the Int32 range. From the customer's point of view, this data itself is not abnormal, and there are cases where the...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
4 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

Grid View: ability to customize the default value for number of items per page

When opening a Grid view, ie loss events, the default page size is 50 records and it can be changed manually to 100, 250, 500. The client is asking to change the default value (50) to other values (100, 200, 250, 500) globally in the system settin...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Convert PBR tablespace to PBG without an outage

Right now we have situations come up where applications and DBAs have created partition by range (PBR) tables, and there is a need later on to convert these to partition by growth (PBG). Currently there is no way to do this without dropping the ob...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration