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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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Refresh : subset row

Hi, The idea is to have No limit for SQL length when we need to refresh a subset of rows . The code limitation for SQL length IS 1000 characters. Sometimes SQL code is shorter than this limit, no issue. For other usages we can have over 1000000 ch...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Change the "Pending Backup State" to NO when backup is done to /dev/null

There can be situations where customer wants to switch from circular logging to Archival logging and vice versa. Currently, when a switch from Circular Logging to Archive Logging is requested, Db2 sets the database state in "Backup Pending" state ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 7 Functionality already exists

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Make Inline Guidance fields collapsible

Inline guidance fields can take up quite a lot of space on the screen. Ideally the user should be able collapse this down to avoid the view becoming too cluttered. Perhaps the Administrator can decide whether it should be collapsed by default.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package, that was available in 10.2.2 but not in CA11.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include process ID in past activities information in Cognos Administration

The Current Activities view in Cognos Administration includes a bunch of helpful information for troubleshooting including the process ID (PID). With the PID we are able to trace that process to the Cognos server and if we cancel the process in Co...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

SSM crash and reboot

WHen SSM crash happen, after the dump creation, the service must restart automaticaly. At same times, VEMKD should detect this crash and send all applications that was to this SSM to another one and ask to the client to submit again the workload w...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted