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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 to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Support for Drill Through to URL/CA Reports

Planning Analytics needs to support more drill through options outside of Turbo Integrator. For example users should be able to drill through to a report rendered in Cognos Analytics. This could be accomplished by supporting a URL basesd drill thr...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Process Cognos Analytics report output further as input in Data Module

Purpose is usually very simple planning or easy implementation of data from an additional source. Workaround is file export, external processing & import as uploaded file (last even without a native scheduling). Transferring existing business ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Create a function to allow a TI to be executed with user's security rights instead of the default Admin rights.

Create a function to force a TI to take security into account called in the prolog section The function could be similar to the one that allows TIs to overwrite locks (CubeLockOverwrite), which is called out once in the prolog section and modifies...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

HLOMAINT utility enhancement request

Today, HLOMAINT utility is not designed to find out what utilities are stuck or dead. To clean up those loader utilities, we run a SELECT * against HLOTB.HLOUSTAT table, review each utility, and run the HLOMAINT job to terminate the utilities one ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 BLU Acceleration in DB2 pureScale

Wewould like to see DB2 BLU acceleration on a DB2 pureScale cluster.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release