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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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I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a sp...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on data field i.e. Green for on progress, red for delayed

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on value in the field i.e. Green color for on progress, red for delayed and others
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Use DeleteClient function with argument alias (instead of the cryptical CAM-id)

Issue while deleting TM1-clients using the DeleteClient command in TI-process for instances that are using Integrated Security Mode=5 and CAMid's. The process ends with an error for each user that was deleted. Afterwards, using the Security>Cli...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration