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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
107 VOTE

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Data Quality Rule output settings

1) In Data Quality Rule output settings I would like to have similar solution as in Information Analyzer where I have an option to select "SYSTEM TABLE" as my output table. With this option each rule execution will create uniquely named output tab...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review
100 VOTE

automatically activate a database when DB2 LUW is started

See PMR 14855,227,000. We would like some way to automatically activate a specific database when a DB2 instance is started without the use of external scripts or DB2 APIs.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 6 Planned for future release

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

DMC for P10 systems (pLinux)

Provide ability to administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 on the P10 systems.
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Future consideration