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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Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Retention of Formatting in Planning Analytics for Excel Viewer

When using Planning Analytics our Developers create standard views for users so that they can easily see important information in the system. In the RDP Perspectives Cube Viewer you can add formatting to these views e.g #,###;(#,###) which when th...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Expose read-only flag via rest api

Since it is relevant for licensing, the read-only flag should be exposed via the rest api. At the moment the only way to retrieve the flag is by querying the clientproperties cube.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics to be Supported in RHEL POWER LE

We are currently using Planning Analytics 2.0.3 installed in RHEL Power LE. We are planning to upgrade our system because our current version is already nearing its End of Support this September. RHEL Power LE is not included in the list of suppor...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Config option to raise an SQL error on inserting a too long string value

Inserting of any string value should not result with a silent automatic truncation of a given value and with an OK transaction result status. Exactly this is the default DBMS behaviour for non-ANSI databases.One solution for this could be the intr...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Change DSNARNMG to have a user define task name

Currently there's a hard coded name in module DSNARNMG. That program always tries to start a task called: DB2UDSMD. That is unacceptable for some installations where they have job and task name standards. This RFE is to add a new ZPARM to allow th...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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