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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Distribute reports by email with fixed sender

We've set up an Event Studio Agent to execute and distribute burst reports. Different people (from support) need to be able to start the agent, but all reports always need to be send using the same from email.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Spanned Record Format in Reorg Discard Dataset

We would like Discard Lob's from a Table and Load them into a Partner Table. The Discard Dataset can not exceed 32K, so it is not possible. With Unload Utility it is possible to define Spanned Yes for SYSREC. It would be helpful if you could suppo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Bring back "Insert" and "Collapse all" option to menu on data items

In previous versions of CA (eg. 11.0.6) we had "Insert" and "Collapse all" options when right clicking a data item in the "Query"-view. In newer releases we only have "Display data items based on selection". Would be nice to have these options bac...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying TOCOPY on a RECOVER

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "TOCOPY" in the "list-options-spec" section of the "RECOVER" page.3) Receive following error when attempting to use a ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Point(dot) chart, dots are overlapping, its not good for visualization

Cognos Analytics Dashboard: We cannot set the opacity on the chart, only the whole chart it self. The dots are overlapping each other, thus not every mark is visible on the chart. Allow to change the opacity of the dots on the chart.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a command to remove a specific retained lock

Under current behavior in a DB2 Data Sharing environment, when a DB2 member crashes and is not able to restart, the application on the other members is stopped by retained locks.In our environment, for some specific applications due to the nature ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The customer want db2 product match the new standard of GB 18030-2022, which will come into effect on August 1, 2023.

The customer will have to match GB 18030-2022 standard.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Build Compression Dictionary on Insert, if triggered by update or delete

There is already code that a compression dictionary is built, if rows are inserted into an empty partition. A compression dictionary is however not created if these inserts are triggered by update-statements, e.g. if you update on of the partition...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration