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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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Rebuild indexes from index or table panel

We would like to be able to generate JCL for rebuilding one or more indexes from the index or table panel.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ACCUMACC for CICS transactions

ACCUMACC exists to aggregate accounting records for DDF transactions. It would be nice to have the same functionnality with classic transactions (CICS/IMS ..) because it reflects a today usage of these transaction monitoring systems. Without these...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Only Drill THrough icons to be visible to users

Users should be able to see only Drill through icon when they run the Dashboard unlike the IT Developers
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simple Configuration & Health script that reports high-level database metrics

The purpose of a simple Configuration & Health script is to provide DBAs with a high-level view of macro database metrics that could suggest specific areas worthy of further investigation. The report would include these components as follows: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

mbatchd log job submission rejection

It is helpful to have job submission rejection logging to log file so we can set up monitor to size the issue and early warning alert of scale of issue
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make the importing of Agent (Event) schedules consistent with schedules for reports/jobs

In Cognos 10, if you do not select the option to Include Schedules in an Export, the Import would not touch existing schedules. In Cognos 11.x, if you do not select the Include Schedules option in an Export, the Import will DELETE an existing sche...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Linked actuality currency conversion also for Group Journals

Currently Currency-conversion and consolidation is not done for Group-journals, stored on GAC's. In the old consolidation model this was not possible, in NYKOMO this should be possible
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

CPO interactive enhancement to write or query solution

CPO interactive misses some very useful command to simply query one solution value for a given variable with its name (allowing wildcards to display more variables) Today, the only way we can query a solution is through display solution command th...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration