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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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Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Bulk edit capability for categories

Content admins have a need to update certain properties/relationships/parent category of a set of categories in bulk; example case is to move a list of categories from one parent category to another in bulk
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

DB2 Support for Business Partners

Suggest allowing access to DB2 Support for IBM Business Partners companies who do not have a valid support contract, nor may have a valid DB2 licence at all, but despite all that devote their (working) lives preaching, selling and supporting DB2 f...
7 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 4 Functionality already exists

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Temporal Table supported by CDC for IBM i

Temporal table is only supported by CDC for DB2 LUW as source/target and for z/OS as src only. We requiere replicate Temporal Tables by CDC for IBM i to have a DR up to date.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted