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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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Restore Diagnostic messages

When upgrading DB2 LUW from V10.5 to V11.5, restore got hung after processing 830G [ full backup data ] without any message DB2 Support team was contacted to troubleshoot the issue, finally, it appeared to be an file lock issue, DB2 appeared to be...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 connection to be inherited by a subshell

With the db2 command it is possible to execute a wide variety of DB2 tasks from a shell environment. It is however not possible to use variable substitution in a way that feels natural in a Unix environment. The execution of a shell script starts ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration

iFrame (tab/window) should auto close once user selects 'Deliver report by email'

iFrame (tab/window) should auto close once user selects 'Deliver report by email' in Standard UI home page tab and task focused UI
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

ISF0313-1591 Use of UDFs in IDAA

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: gregory.debo.bipd@statefarm.comSubmitters Company: State Farm PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: ISF0313-1591 Use of UDFs in IDAAHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Information ManagementCurrent Status: Recog...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAw links to PAx sheets too long to work in Excel

the issue we found is that if the link is longer than 255 chars you cannot copy it from PA and drop it into Excel and expect it to work(Excel links balk). We are using a Web based URL shortner, but IBM needs to do that from default as many of thes...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

During rollforward to PIT from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database

During rollforward to point in time recovery from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

ODBC Connection for Multi TM1 Server IBM PA Cloud instance, lock a specific Database to a specific DSN

In the Cloud: IBM PA can use Json Key and Simba ODBC for connecting to the on prem data. This works ok if you do not mind the Data tier in IBM PA showing all DSN connections to all Datasets and projects in on prem data. When you have a scenario wh...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

add capability to adjust the Admin to be a Analyst or User

Rather than creating Test/ Dummy accounts. Which is hard with federated SSO and same domain name, would be good if a developer could access data as a specific user role and access to TM1 Database. Then we can quickly test security models and not h...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration