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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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Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

IBM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console – DB2 LUW LOAD Utility.

Change Data Capture (CDC) Subscriptions mirroring from DB2 LUW to Event Server (JMS) are constantly failing due to some LOADs performed on DB2 LUW side. We must manually recycle affected LOAD table whenever they fail to restart the subscriptions f...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Replication 1 Submitted

Cognos 11 - Email Attachment Restriction

Requesting the ability to lock down a user or group's ability to send reports as attachments in email form. This functionality was available by adding a "CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment" "ui_hide" parameter value in the system.xml file (under "{in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
7 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Change size of columns on table in dashboard

We want to have the ability to make the columns bigger/smaller in the virtualization named Table in a Dashboard, both horizontally (green) and vertically (blue). The Cross table have this functionality today, so we want that for a regular table too.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Submitted

Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
4 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Allow parallel offline table reorg of range partitioned tables with non partitioned indexes (NPI)

Offline (classic) table reorgs might still be necessary in certain scenarios and can run for a very long time for huge tables (>24h). It is very hard to find a suitable window in a 24x7 System. Offline table reorgs - which have at least one non...
12 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review