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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 for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying FROMCOPYDDN on an UNLOAD

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "template-name" in the FROMCOPYDDN line of the "source-spec" section of the "UNLOAD" page.3) Receive following error w...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Do some more checking when Db2 fixpack is installed - like will fixpack be working after instance upgrade

On my test computer Linux x86_64, Db2 v11.5.8.0 is installed and I decided to upgrade to v11.5.9.0. 1. I checked prerequisite and everything was successful. ./db2prereqcheck -i -s -v 11.5.9.0 2. I installed Db2 server and installation was s...
almost 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Improve the target mapping columns types for Kafka equivalent from sources db2z and db2i

The setting presently in the IDR replication from DB2z and DB2i to for target Kafka: KC for the supported type : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-column-mappings#supportedtablemappings__title__7 Source type column DB2...
almost 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Allow more than one separator character when unloading in delimited format

A competitor's unload tool allowed us to specify more than one character in the separator field when unloading data in delimited format. We had to use more than one character, because for unloads of certain tables, we couldn't find a character tha...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, Data Item Nameing please remove the additional '_' in the naming standard

By default when creating a data module, Data Items have a underscore replaces a space between words. There are some instances where an underscore will be added after a data item name when there are no spaces. 'Number_' or 'Count_'. The reason I a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Add IBM LSF RTM alert interval by weekly basis, currently it only has daily alert notice in RTM pop-up column.

IBM Spectrum LSF RTM only have hours, daily basis of alert pop-up column could choose. For management of current alert aggregation, We need IBM to add this feature enhancement into RTM fix patch. The features enhancement came from needs of...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages Audit Management Sampling

Sampling Requirement; 'Open Pages IAM should provide a medium to gather population from external system & apply sampling techniques and reverse sampling techniques to generate sample tests for audit planning, IIA recommended sampling technique...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

SAS ODBC Connectivity with DataStage

Need capability to use SAS ODBC connection with Data Stage.
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

New packages button, would significantly improve our users experience

We have a packages folder containing all our packages that our users use. To get to it when creating a new report/dashboard, they have to scroll down all the team folders that we have which is slow and frustrating.It would make perfect sense in th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration