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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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Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PA for Excel: Drop down that shows/opens saved views in Viewer

It would be great to have a drop down in Viewer that shows/opens saved views.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Documentation for admin features

When modifying the features in the admin panel for different userids/groups, there is no way to understand what the effects are on all the areas of the different features. There are more than 1100 of them.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of IDAA Loader with REORG Utility w/ Purge LOG(NO)

Currently after a Db2 table REORG/Purge job that is using LOG(NO) I have to have a secondary jobstep to then reload the accelerator shadow table(s). What I'm thinking is that if the IDAA Loader can load the accelerator shadow table(s) in parallel ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Long Identifiers (128 bytes) in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

Long Identifiers in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Oracle 12.2 increases the maximum size of most identifiers from 30 to 128 bytes. https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/long-identifiers-12cr2
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

User list management

Hi Team, Would like to get the latest users being added to the system. We see that currently we are unable to get the users based on account creation date and hence fail to get the details of users who were recently added .If the feature can be im...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration