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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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SAS ODBC Connectivity with DataStage

Need capability to use SAS ODBC connection with Data Stage.
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Currently Job Priority Over Time Impacts all Queue and all Jobs - Instead optionally make it affect only Queues and Jobs that are APS Queues

The Job Priority Over Time is an excellent feature that is designed to be paired with APS dispatch rules. However, some users have setup soft dispatch or dispatch preferences in the normal queue which is not APS enabled that classify jobs by their...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY (FFRO) to ARRAY_AGG function

This would work along the same lines as ORDER BY in the ARRAY_AGG and will restrict the number of array elements. I believe this feature would be a feature in demand as more DB2users utilize DB2 arrays. I had to resort to a workaround of using a s...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 4 Functionality already exists

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Multi-Value Enumerated String for Chart Data Field

IT would be useful to allow multi-value enumerated strings for use as the chart data field. For example, when looking at Regulatory Changes, It would be useful to see changes by jurisdiction. Since a reg change can have more than one jurisdiction,...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if you...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

File Picklist prompt in cognos analytics

An option of prompt picklist just as it exist in cognos impromptu:an option to hold excel file with list of values that the end user can change by himself and all defined reports will run with filter on this dat.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A means of checking who are the current active users in qmf_for_websphere

Because otherwise how do you measure how many users in the organization are using this product ? In case they don't , you don't need to maintain it anymore (users might prefer using qmf for tso )
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration