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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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Db2 LUW support on Alma 8

Request is to certify Db2 LUW on Alma Linux 8 as the replacement for CentOS. Research indicates: RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos 7 and 8 with Alma Linux. There will not be a Centos 9. RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Force Save button

It would be nice to force a save on a record, even if it has not been updated. Business use case: A risk record has a control attached. The control has values that are used in a calculation for risk rating that is stored on the risk. The control...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

AuditDBCleanup for Cognos Analytics

A version of the AuditDBCleanup tool for Cognos Analytics is needed to provide easy cleanup capabilities for IBM Cognos audit logging databases, allowing old database records to be deleted regularly based on a timestamp.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Job and query execution by predefined time intervals

Create the possibility of executing queries, jobs and other data selection operations by a set of predefined time intervals like "last hour", "last day", "last week", "last month", etc.. It should be possible to apply these predefined time period ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

execute reports, data sets, and jobs using a webhook

The modern data stack involves various technologies for extraction, loading, and transformation of data. Achieving appropriate sequence across technologies can be a challenge but webhooks can resolve this issue to allow different platforms to comm...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

CDC Management console: Prevent starting subscription when sub is locked

It is possible to start a subscription in a lock state. When a CHCCLP script tries to lock the subscription, the script fails ("Subscription Already Locked"). By preventing the start of a locked subscription, will prevent this.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

CDC - automatically add new column to table mapping.

Enhance the product to when a new column is added to the Source Datastore (DB2), and the column exists in the Target (Oracle), CDC adds the column automatically to the table mapping, without stopping the subscription. Similar to QREP ADDCOL For ex...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration