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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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Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Pipeline Explicit Compile Option on GUI

Pipeline Compilation Option (Similar to 11.7) It's observed that there's no explicit Compile option for Pipeline (Sequencer). It helps to check the changes made to the stages are correct and compiled, before running the job. On 11.7 - it allows to...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add an element in a cubeviewer

We would like to create an element in the IBM Planning Analytics Cube Viewer via right-click. This would greatly improve user-friendliness.
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DB2 Return Code Differentiate for Deadlock and Timeout via Subsys Normal Call Exit

DB2 presents IMS ( via Subsystem Normal Call Exit ) with the same return code (4) for: DB2 resource deadlocks DB2 resource unavailable conditions Example, lock timeouts on object locks, such as are taken by DB2 utilities and those caused b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Lock and Unlock element in PAW

We need functionality of locking and unlocking element in PAW, same like Architect. In Architect when we lock an element (by right click element > security > lock/unlock), it will not overwrite existing READ/WRITE access to groups. But when ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration