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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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BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
7 months ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 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...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 z/OS limitations with ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE

I love the upcoming FL508 and this new availability even though I have not used it. Looking deeper into the Knowledge Center there seems to be some limitations that I would like to see resolved. The two items are: a) Exist in the same data...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Managing private books in personal folders in Planning Analytics Workspace during asset migration.

Raising this enhancement on behalf of Huntsman team: Currently when migrating assets via LifeCycle Management in PA workspace, one of the limitation indicates: "You can migrate assets that exist in the Shared folder or in your Personal folde...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Global change option for the Search and Select prompt

The Deltek client, FHI360, is asking for the following enhancement, "We ask for a global change option in the Select and Search prompt where the default selection should be, “Contains any of these keywords” instead of “Starts with any of the...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration