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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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Parrallel offload (Archive logs)

DB2 offload logs in sequential mode. We offload logs directly to virtual tapes and sometimes when have problem with tapes DB2 holds many full active logs. It'll be great if DB2 can offload for example ten full active logs in parallel.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Using case attributes as quereies

The client has a requirement to see exactly case related transactions under the case when we use a calendar profile. For example; (1month calendar - txns amount > 1000 and sent to Turkey).. We can put a query with the same conditions and I can ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add Rename option for Column header

Sometimes, when using PAW to create some dashboarding and reporting capabilities, we need to rename some column headers in a different way. Of course we can use aliases to give a new name to the element on that column, but as you know the aliases ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add APPLCOMPAT BIND Option to QMF For Workstation Bind Packages Panel

Currently there is no option to set APPLCOMPAT for the binding of the QMF For Workstation Packages so the packages are bound to whatever the DB2 Subsystem DEFAULT is. Alternatively, you should be able to specify the highest APPLCOMPAT value that t...
10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Move functionality to also move children

When selecting an object, a risk for example, and using the MOVE button on the grid view to move the risk to a different folder, it would be nice to be able to have the option to move its children ( in this case controls) to that same folder as we...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Remove The Need To REORG A Table Up On Performing Table Alter/REORG Recommended Operations

Today when we perform certain operations aka REORG recommended operations against a table like adding columns, dropping columns, changing datatype of a column, altering NULLABILITY of a column etc. the table will be put in a state called REORG pen...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration