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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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Lock an account for input in the account structure.

We would like the option to lock an account for input or import of data directly in the account structure. Account develops over time. Some accounts might not be valid to use over time. It might not be possible to merge these accounts, include the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Improve readahead performance statistic reporting

Since the improved readahead code was established, onstat -p and the associated SMI tables no longer report all readahead pages nor all usage of those pages so that it is impossible to monitor the efficiency of readahead and so be able to determin...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Restore Critical Files [only]

In case of a mistakenly deletion of files in/below the instance home directory of Db2 it should be possible to restore [only] these files/directories etc. At the moment if files/directories are mistakenly deleted, a complete database restore would...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Simplify Alter

In Db2 z/OS version 10 Pending Alters/Deferred Alters were introduced. Deferred Alters are not compatible with most Immediate Alters. Deferred Alters need materializing REORG before immediate Alter, or the Immediate Alter has to be run before D...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preview feature for file attachments

We received a request for an enhancement to the Supporting Documents and Artifacts (file attachments) grid functionality in the TFUI. When user is viewing file attachments associated to an object in the object's task view, the request is to be abl...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Applications or plans should be able to reference a particular page in a PAW book

When adding an asset to an application or plan, there is no ability to select an individual tab in a book. The default behavior is to select the first tab in the book. Often books have multiple tabs in them, and these may be used in different appl...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration