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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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Provide compression capability for LOB tablespaces

As per IBM DB2 documentation, data in a LOB tablespace can not be compressed. The new feature we are requesting is that compression be available for LOB tablespaces.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Remove Preview as default when editing Data Sets

It is difficult to edit data sets that source large volumes of data because default when editing is to preview the data set. It sometimes takes 30 minutes for our data sets to load data into preview mode before we can start editing our data set.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to create custom Dashboard Templates

Current templates provided with Cognos 11 are a good start. But it soon becomes necessary to create your own templates. There needs to be a way to create a variety of dashboard templates.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support zip64 format on Symphony

Unzip utility used on symphony does not support zip package with zip64. I can see it is currently version 5 from the open source software info zip. If IBM can update it to version 6 it will simply resolve the problem. https://infozip.sourceforge.n...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Delivered

Report Visualization v11.1 limitation (drill-through options and full-interactivitymandatory)

It is necessary to have drill-through options with the new visualizations 11.1. In the other hand Full interactivity is mandatory to use these new visualizations but it create to much confusion for users coming from the old versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Cognos Event Studio need to work in Edge

It's inconvenient to use Edge for reporting and dashboards, and only have to use Firefox for the event studio. Please give consideration to customers who are upgrading.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Provide source IP connection information on db2diag.log for all cases of SQL30082N events

Db2 not always provide the source IP connection information on db2diag.log entries, where authentication failures happens - SQL30082N This is a regular footprint on db2diag entries, when an authentication fails to connect to the database. 2020-04-...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Delivered

CDC should support Oracle 12c extended data types

Current CDC version (11.4) although supports Oracle 12, doesn't support what Oracle calls "extended data types":https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF55623 Basically on 12c Oracle allows longer maximums for types VARC...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2If the cognos analytics components communicate securely between the dispatcher and gateway, Cognos Transformer 11 does not support connecting to the dispatcher by using TLS 1.2, it only sup...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered