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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Add SHADOW for REBUILD INDEX SHRLVE CHANGE

Differences between REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REFERENCE. Reference PMR:13307,124,672
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Edit/Modify option for the default Charts/Reports in LSF Explorer

Can we have edit/modify option enabled for the existing default graphs/charts ? This could be limited with Role - Either a new permission added to the Report Administrator or Have a new Role.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Need a way to tell which roles and/or groups an individual user is in.

When a new user joins the organization, typically we'll get a request that says "give the new user the same rights as user x". In the past, when we had Cognos on prem, I had SQL statements I could run against the content store that would allow me ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

PAW : Dropdown selectors start from the current selection : QoL All users

Currently all drop down selectors in the product start from the top of the list. They would be far more user friendly if, once used, the currently selected item was already available, leading to shortend scroll and hunting times.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Sequence Number management in a replicated DB2 system

Today sequence numbering in a DB2 subsystem that is being replicated to a secondary site needs to be managed outside of the replication support manually by the customer. Guidance has been given to use odd/even numbering on one side and the other. ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration