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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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add DB2 drivers support for Entity Framework 6.3

I can imagine most of the .NET APIs currently connecting to DB2 are using Entity framework with your EF DB2 drivers (EntityFramework.IBM.DB2). With the release of .NET Core 3.0 & Entity Framework 6.3, the EF 6.3 runtime package now targets .NE...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4

Allow the maintenance of Metadata Libraries in panel CCQPHLQ

I think it's normal if you added a row in a table that you may need to delete it or update it. For instance, I added few metadata libraries that I don't need them because I am not going to configure them. there is no option to delete them. Any one...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Name of Query

Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically change page view in reporting

Currently in Cognos Analytics, when I change the Start page view in Reporting, I need to save the report, exist, and re-open to see the new page view. I understand it's called 'start page view', however it'd be great if this updated on the fly rat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

AREO Status via select

Some ddl Changes are in table SYSPENDINGDDL Some ddl Changes are not there: for example alter table add column can only be see via -dis db() sp() adv It would be better to have the same bahavior for all ddl changes with AREO* Status.Maybe it could...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Progress Vizualization for Running a TI Process using PAW Button

Users are not informed/aware on the progress of running TI Process via PAW button. When the TI process runtime is taking more than 5 mins, PAW shows no sign of activity, users think that either the TI is done or the page hang.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration