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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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Make multiple DDL changes transactional

Why is it useful? When complex changes are made in DDL and one of the changes fails, it can get pretty hard to revert the issue. Who would benefit from it? Implementing this idea would tremendously help database administrators. How should it work?...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Add slicer capability to user-defined in-memory aggrgates for Dynamic Cubes

Slicer capability exists for in-database aggregate definitions within IBM Cube Designer. The same capability for user-defined in-memory aggregates would allow for better control over fine-tuning performance.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use square bracket and CellValueN shorthand for rules which use cross-hierarchy lookups

Currently the "shorthand lookup" functions [ ] and CellValueN() cannot be used on the right hand side of a TM1 rules expression in cases where the hierarchy in the lookup is modified to a different hierarchy from the cell where the rule is evaluat...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

I/O required for RI check against the parent table when inserts done on the child table.

We have noticed that there is a high number of get pages on the parents indexes when doing an INSERT of a child row. Here are the details of our situation: The parent table has a partitioned primary key index with 132 partitions. The...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Issue with StringToNumber function depending on locale

When the function StringToNumber is used, the TM1 process uses the client's locale/language to set the decimal and thousand separators when the client creates a process. After a process is created the decimal and thousand separators will not chang...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Testing, Development, Accessibility -. browser other than FireFox.

For Development, Testing, and Accessibility, I would like to request that there is another browser used possibly IE or Chrome, as Firefox in Canada is used by only 5% of the population and is actually blocked by many businesses. This makes it frus...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View Synonym and Stopword Files in Discovery v2

We should be able to see the filename for Stopwords and Synonyms, when it was uploaded, and by whom. We should be able to view the stopword or synonym file before blindly deleting it. We should also be able to save/download the file.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL0955C Sort memory cannot be allocated to process the statement. Reason code = 3

It would avoid Db2 errors and interruptions. Every customer using Db2 BLU who ran (or will run) into SQL0955 RC3 errors would benefit.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration