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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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Allow control of bufferpool selection on implicit tablespace create

Currently if you issue a CREATE TABLE and just specify a DATABASE, an implicit tablespace is created. It only uses the default bufferpool set at installation, panel DSNTIP1. Since the database is known, the default bufferpool specified for the dat...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PAW : Error Logs in the PAW Screen

Hi Team, We use the Error logs when the processes fail. It would be great to show the Message logs in PAW. Currently through Architect/Perspective you can immediately to to Transaction Logs or Message Logs. It will speed up the development in PAW,...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW : Cube Views in the dropdown

We are using Architect/Perspective a lot. We would like to see the following abilities on Cube Viewer: Option to revert back to the original views(revert back) Provide an option to Undo the view Provide an option to select different view from the ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dimension Locking : Provide a feature to provide a list of dimensions to Lock

Hello Team, We currently sometimes update our dimensions during normal business hours. But during the same time, we would like to lock a set of dimensions during that time. We see a feature to Lock the dimension. But you have to lock each dimensio...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

bjobs should show LIMITs ( MEMLIMIT / RUNLIMIT ) from queues or applications, please improve it.

Currently LIMITs settings ( MEMLIMIT / RUNLIMIT ) from queues or applications did NOT show in "bjobs -l" output, only job-level setting did. But the LIMITs are still effective in job environment, so it may deliver wrong information to user until j...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Mail Alert when PAW Backup fails

Whenever Docker Containers restarts frequently, and Scheduled Backups fails; Email to Application Support needed to be sent with relevant logs and details.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Issue a warning or a report where a table or objects can be included in more than 1 profile

Since an application recovery profiles can cover multiple db2 objects e.g. say 20 tables, the same table can qualify for the object pattern in more than 1 application profile. when in a mass recovery scenario the first application profile will run...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration