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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2z Sequencing support in IDAA for surrogate keys

In many data transformation flows, surrogate keys are required for dimension tables for example. One common technique for generating surrogate values is to use database sequences, particularly when utilizing SQL-based transformations. Currently se...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAX slice/convert to a new workbook

The current Planning Analytics for Excel model gives 2 options when exporting reports from the task pane, export to this sheet or export to a new sheet. I think it would be useful to be able to export to a new workbook, to mirror how Perspectives ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Search and recent with rest API

Hi. The idee is to extend cognos to exteral interfaces with for funconality like adding "recent" into a SharePoint portal. This would be like an RSS feed. It should also be possible to use search from external portals.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the User Interface of SPSS to be as User Friendly as JMP

Making the user interface do more and easier to use would broaden the market for SPSS. Some examples of things you can do in the user interface of JMP that would be good to add to SPSS: Automatically name dummy variables to reflect the different v...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Add Google BiqQuery Functions to Cognos Analytics

Hi IBM, We are using Google BigQuery as one of the database sources to connect to Cognos Analytics on Cloud and using the packages to build reports and dashboards. Currently, we have to manually type in the Google BigQuery functions in the Model, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 4 Not under consideration

Business Rules Server's "Distribution Done" message should include success/failure information

In support case TS007497792 (RTP-1184 PERF Gateway Server 1Q1 has not been processing any transactions), we had a problem resulting from failures in the workflow activation for one of our 4 gateway servers. Because we scanned for the final message...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 Not under consideration

PIECESIZE-limitation for indexes

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over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new DB2 SQL/DDL > DECLARE (GLOBAL) TEMPORARY VARIABLE

Db2 v11 introduced CREATE VARIABLE. pretty handy... but it must be created in advance. How about a dynamic SQL/DDL equivalent? DECLARE TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyx OR DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyz It would be useful for anyone (ie. ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration