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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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DataStage Oracle Connector Stage to receive responses from PL/SQL

Can we enhance DataStage Oracle Connector stage to be able to receive response from PL/SQL and pass the value to an output link so next stage can use the values?
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

GUI for PAW Admin Tool

Any chance of making Planning Analytics Workspace Administration Tool as a permanent GUI or URL, without launching it through PAW ?
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

remove the requirement of setting DB2INSTANCE before entering/exiting maintenance mode as root

Starting from v11.1.3.3, the user wants to enter / exist maintenance mode as root user, s/he has to export DB2INSTANCE before the db2cluster command: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t00...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

PAW support for multiple Cognos BI Dispatcher & Gateway URI.

Currently there is no provision for multiple Cognos BI Dispatcher/Gateway URI in PA Workspace local(release 29), would like to have the capability of supporting multiple.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio

bring query explorer concepts in dashboards create queries in background then use queries to the dashboard vizs same like report studio this is the same concept Power BI has and its in top position we already had it in report studio i dont know wh...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER INDEX that columns can be reordered without drop and recreate

Recently we had a major incidence in production because an automatic bind happened after the drop of an index of a very big table and before the recreate of that index, although the Create used the Option DEFER YES. We wanted to reorder some colum...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Use DBS etc Fomulas with Sandboxing in PAx

Funcationality to use DBS and associated formulas in PAx while connected to a sandbox. Currently, the formuals are utilzed as / in custom reports but there is no access to sandboxes while using that report type. Business Reasons: As you are worki...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expand loading size of static SQL statement to SPA from 4000 byte to 2MB.

[Request] Expand loading size of static SQL statement to SPA from 4000 byte to 2MB.Guardium S-TAP for Db2 on z/OS uses SPA(Space Block) to capture executed static SQL statement. Currently static SQL statement is loaded only first 4000 bytes of the...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring table function to display details on the application and its temp space usage

Often times, users would like to get a single view report on the application handles/ids, the corresponding process id and application usage of sys or user temp spaces and db2 does not have one monitoring table function to accomplish this. Users n...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration