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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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Field translation issues

Previously in some fields (MCC for example) we would only see the MCC in field hovering over would give us the explanation. Now all within text box (Problem due to what now was 4 digit column has to be a sentence, meaning less overall data on scre...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release

System Administrator should have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrators current have no ability to renew other users credentials on their behalf. This is very inconvenient as it would otherwise be necessary to always know users' credentials prior to renewing them.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow setting of environment variable (e.g. PSORT_DBTEMP) in AUS.

Sometimes tables are too big that the allocated temporary dbspaces are not enough and AUS fails updating statistics in high mode. The temporary dbspaces are sufficient under normal use so adding more space to temporary dspaces is not ideal.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Explain product names in installer

When installing, a name like CONSV o RTCL are not clear for people entering into the world of Db2. These names should be explained in from of them, like CONSV - Db2 Connect for zOS o i RTLN - Data server runtime client
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

How to Manage a subset that is presented in the spread function as default

Using a Classic View, the selection under the Spread Function show us a complete list of the member of the dimension. We would like to see here the members depending on a subset.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Return Id's when a salesforce object is created with salesforce pack

When a salesforce object is created with the salesforce pack, the object id should be returned by the stage (output data).
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Is it possible to update Cognos 11 to report a 'locked out' account?

Our client would like to be able to run a report or get an alert whenever a user gets locked out of their Cognos account.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Blue/Green upgrades #cpfieldel

Feedback CP4D should support blue/green upgrades (yes, if the required hardware is in place). Business Justification The justification is that it helps CP4D become a mission-critical platform that doesn't need to be down for multiple da...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release