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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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Set object status to prohibit data access

Before we drop a Db2 table we need to make sure that noone use the object in any way. We solve this now by stopping the tablespace and keeping it stopped for about six months. This means that noone can access the data and noone can run a utility a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create folders to organize queries in reporting

The query screen in Report Studio/Report Authoring can get difficult to manage and understand in complex multi-query reports. Having some organizational features, like the ability to create folders to contain related queries, would make this signi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dark Mode

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes.
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Create a new partition if a LOB-tablespace gets a new partition in a UTS PBG

Hi Sometime the base-table is very small whereas the corresponding lob-tablespace can get bigger and bigger. So the base tablespace remains at one partition whereas the log tablespace can run against the limit of 255 datasets
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Peak / Non-Peak periods to be defined in hh:mm

As an administrator in cognos administration add option to define peak and non/peak periods in server (services) properties not only in hours but also in minutes like hh:mm. Hours only is a basic limitation for this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Dropdata(-dropdata) Support for backup

In netezza, we have a good backup performance indicator in '-dropdata' option, which indicates how fast we can backup, without writing to filesystem. Having such performance indicator in Concerto will help to isolate issues for backup performance ...
about 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Ability to create BigSQL table from a single environment (i.e. QA) against parquet files stored in two different Cloud Object Storage (i.e. QA and PROD)

We create a number of simulated test data in our QA environment COS with BigSQL tables and Data Virtualization. Before upgrading from CP4D 3.0 to CP4D 3.5, we ran some simulated test BigSQL queries in our QA environment. Now that our QA has been u...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1