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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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Add synopsis tables and Columnar Page Map usage to BLU explain plans.

Add synopsis tables and Columnar Page Map usage to BLU explain plans.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Encryption utility for RSP files

Goal: create RSP (response) file to install Db2 LUW on multiple systems, but allow for customization of the password for the instance owner without having to go through the GUI installer for each, and avoid displaying the password in plain text in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Access controls on users - need audit log for compliance

Visibility is required to track when an user has been deleted, for auditing purposes. E.g. removed as a subscriber to Planning Analytics? This will need to include the date, user and email address.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

same SQL functionality fo...

The customers of IBMs DB2 products (LUW and z/OS) expect that the existing differnences between the SQL functionalities are getting less from DB2 version to DB2 version. This - 85095,077,724 - is an example for a new functionality in DB2 LUW with ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Ability to use PageNumber function in a variable to render the object conditionally

Product: Cognos Report Studio 10.1.1 Currently, according to defect COGCQ00017674 , PageNuber() and PageCount() report function can not be used in a varaible. We wants these function to use these functions in a variable so he can render the object...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Introduction of a hard limit on the size of the Package Cache to avoid memory exhaustion .

Although the package cache is set to a fixed value, it was using more space than the configured size.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration