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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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CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Salesforce.com Data Source Connection Updates

Update for Cognos 10.2.2 and above. Update API version used for Salesforce.com data source connection. 10.2.2 leverages API version 18 which Salesforce has expanded the objects available within the connection in later releases.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 lock escalation should be able to break-in into UOW running REL(DEALLOCATE)

At DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the following scenario : Changing CICS work to run REL(DEALLOCATE) from REL(COMMIT) was made possible in DB2 11 as BIND and DDL can now break-in. The change should give a CPU-reduction. However running b...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CDC for Oracle support replicate rowid from source oracle database to target side

CDC for AS400 can replicate RRN from AS400 to target database, OGG can replicate rowid from Oracle to target. CDC for Oracle should support replicating rowid, it is very useful when no primary key in the source table , it can helps data reliable.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration