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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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Generate async IFCID 317 with async IFCID 316

When DB2 writes an asynchronous IFCID 316 record, there is no way to obtain the complete SQL statement text because it is no longer in the dynamic statement cache. We need for DB2 to make the SQL statement text available in an asynchrounous IFCID ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Prompts for all db2 utility cancellations

I have faced this issue at the beginning of my career. When we ran into some issue with utility hung or ran some utility accidentally don’t know when it will be finished and when can we kill that process. If we give a prompt with some information ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Extend scriptable interface with methods for determine the type of a prompt control

The scripting interface for custom controls and page modules offers currently (v11.0.11) no documented javacript-method for getting the type of a certain prompt control (e.g. TextPrompt, selectBox etc.).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

dynamically allocated 1000000 locks

this message will start to show repeatedly in the online log:dynamically allocated 1000000 locksbut no more info than that - in order to track down the issue, we need to know what session is causing the increase in locks
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add multiple widget connections to one dashboard object

we need to be able to assign to one data object multiple connections not just one like today to be able to setup more complicated interactions similar to gestures in active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display query(ies) in Generated SQL/MDX when using a Global Parameter as Cascade source

Show Generated SQL/MDX is not able to display any SQL query in a report when using a Global Parameter in a Cascade Prompt, not matter if is being used in a query Item, the fact of being used in this way block all queries in SQL/MDX box. The work ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Release the restriction of restoring and rollforward through a topology change in pureScale

After a change in topology that involves adding or dropping a member, you cannot perform rollforward recovery operations through the point where the topology change occurred;
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0