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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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Enhance IBM My Notifications with Affected DB2 Version Information

Currently we subscribe to the IBM 'My Notifications' email (see: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.trb.doc/doc/t0060379.html or https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21686621) so we rece...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

DSMTOP should use the same color schema as DB2TOP

DSMTOP should use the same color schema as DB2TOP. Currently, DSMTOP uses a grey background which makes viewing of the metrics difficult.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Generate async IFCID 317 with async IFCID 316

When DB2 writes an asynchronous IFCID 316 record, there is no way to obtain the complete SQL statement text because it is no longer in the dynamic statement cache. We need for DB2 to make the SQL statement text available in an asynchrounous IFCID ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

dynamically allocated 1000000 locks

this message will start to show repeatedly in the online log:dynamically allocated 1000000 locksbut no more info than that - in order to track down the issue, we need to know what session is causing the increase in locks
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reporting: Resizable find window

The "Find" window in Authoring (Reporting) where one can search in the report itself cannot be resized. Especially when having long query and/or data item names and many search results this impedes the work process to find a specific result and ex...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add flag field to IFCID 402 to indicate when a reset has occurred.

In Db2 Version 13 and V12 (with APAR PH50729), Db2 resets IFCID 402 statistic counters immediately if the warning or exception threshold for the associated profiles is changed when you issue a START PROFILE command. It’s difficult to tell if the c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add multiple widget connections to one dashboard object

we need to be able to assign to one data object multiple connections not just one like today to be able to setup more complicated interactions similar to gestures in active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display query(ies) in Generated SQL/MDX when using a Global Parameter as Cascade source

Show Generated SQL/MDX is not able to display any SQL query in a report when using a Global Parameter in a Cascade Prompt, not matter if is being used in a query Item, the fact of being used in this way block all queries in SQL/MDX box. The work ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this via...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration