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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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Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ----...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Attatch voice message to mobile app reports

Extending on the current capability to annotate/comment an active report from the mobile app, the ability to voice record a comment and attached it to a specific report would greatly improve the use of reports and the application
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Updating views by TI and saved in Book

We are trying to update the view structure/properties and subset assignments to various named Views used in our PAW Reports. For instance, we are using an existing View created in architecture, in PAW Report by just dragging and dropping into the ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make 'highlight same' always ON. Currently makes user select highlight buttons every time a task is opened.

In MDM Inspector when opening a task for resolution, we would like to be able to default the "hightlight same" button as always on.
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow better monitoring of DB2 Thread/Connection types

Currently there are various ZPARMs to "control" thread management (CTHREAD,MAXDBAT,CONDBAT,IDFORE,IDBACK,etc). These ZPARMS are upper bound limits of the number of each type of thread/connection that DB2 is configured with. There is very little in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

IFERROR Function does not work in PAw

We are working on the reports we will be deploying shortly and this a issue with the CAGR concept =IFERROR(F13/F$13,"n/c ") is an example. They work fine in PAx, but when we view them in PAw we get #NAME? errors returned. See attached example. Wil...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preserving of the server .xml settings when starting from commandline in Linux

Preserve the server .xml settings when we choose the option use ./cogconfig.sh –s to start service. This saves the server.xml losing all the changes (we use it for configuring AJP port, by uncommenting the setting and sometimes changing the AJP ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add function to sort Expiration Date on License Key Center

Our Business Partner sells customers instead of us.Because of that they ordered many contracts every day. In the case of Term License, for example, they would like to generate authcodes which associated with entitlement's expiration date (ex. 31st...
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration