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


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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

Allow tenant switch without the loss of my content

Setup=====We use a multi-tenant environment for different customers with the same database.There are some special customers (service provider), they have access for more than one tenant (but not for all).For this purpose we are using a customized ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Couchbase Data Source

Customer is now leveraging Couchbase for data that needs to be reported on.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Add Memory Statistics to Daily Statistics

When I wrote the daily statistics interface years ago, I had very little comprehension of the concept of Memory Efficiency, and therefore did not add memory_reserved, and mem_used, and max_memory to the daily statistics tables. But in todays HPC, ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Possible to delete datamodul cache

When developing and debugging reports we need to know that we going against the database and not against cache. There should be an option to delete cache for a datamodul. Today I need to restart dispatcher or change datamodul to be able to delete ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Default Value based on expressions

JSON views should be configurable to load default values (in Creation View), and provide a way for the default value to be defined via expressions. Sample use cases include: Setting the Control Owner default value to the current user Setting ...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

db2pd -inst attemps to collect PureScale information in a non-PureScale environment

db2pd -inst attempts to collect - quiesceinfo and - iperiodic even though they are not appropriate options for the non-PureScale environment. It seems like db2pd should be smart enough to collect the information appropriate for the operating envir...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Ability for user to view Dialog flow either in tree list or dependency tree view

As it is extremely difficult to view jump nodes in tree view while designing dialog nodes, would recommend to provide dependency tree view, it also helps user to directly select nodes and edit rather than collapsing and expanding in tree list view...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration