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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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LOAD utility - Replace Duplicate row entries under RESUME YES option

When we try to use the DSNUTILB utility to LOAD data into a DB2 table with RESUME YES option, where we need to Load some set of records, which do have same Primary key values already existing in the Target table, then those records to be loaded ar...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Image Gallery Support With SSL

Image gallery works fine with SSL disabled but doesn't work (with PDF and XLS) with SSL enabled. Recommended IBM workaround also doesn't work.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Can we get dimension properties (attributes) included when using MDX cube view as a data source for TI? It would provide dramatically faster processing.

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over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HQ: Add a 'Hot tables" sub-menu in the Performance tab, same for LOCKS

It would be a good thing to have, in HQ's performance sub-menu, a 'Hot tables' (and indexes) section which can be based on the output of onstat -g ppf. The idea is to have a view on the tables that are more active, and eventually click on one tabl...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide a method to forcibly kick users from an instance

If the primary instance or any instance a user is logged into needs to be restarted or shutdown for either maintenance or technical issues this could help provide notification to the logged in users.
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Add Team content and My content to the Tabs Area in Cognos 11.2

In stead of we all need to add an Extension adding Team Content and My content to the Tabs in Cognos 11.2. Could you just add in to the Tabs Recent and Get Started. It is the most used areas and the users must go to the Hamburger Menu to acces Tea...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enable Email Notifications for Pipeline Failures

On Datastage 11.7 we are able to send emails when a pipeline fails. In Cloud Datastage we are unable to do so. This causes us extra work to check on job statuses.
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release