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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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Generate SW ID Tag for Trial Installs

Activating a license with db2licm generates a SW ID Tag, which can then be recognized by an ILMT software scan for license reporting.Currently a trial edition is not generating a SW ID Tag, so they cannot be discovered by LMT.As it is important fo...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Lineage - display query subject filter name rather than 'Embedded Filter#'

In IBM Cognos Lineage filters defined in Query Subjects in Framework Manager packages are displayed as e.g. 'Embedded Filter 1' rather than displaying the defined name of the filter in the package. As this information is not visible for the lineag...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Gateway access to Salesforce from DataStage

Currently we are using DataPower as gateway between DataStage and Salesforce, but we have issue reported on the SR. It is considered that issue is related with response message rewriting so we want solution without rewriting the message.Our expect...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 1 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

ISO/IEC 9075:2016-2, T612: Add ability to declare window frame that can be shared between window functions

When you need to use the same window frame for several window functions, T612 can simplify the query. Example from code of advent, day 1: select id, case when count(1) over w = 3 then sum(depth) over w end depth from day1.input window w as (order ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Prohibit inoperative packages after drop function

DROP and CREATE of userdefined function KZZ.LEXSORT set packages KIS##01 and KIS##30 to inoperative. Error in IMS region BOKMSG8F: SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E30305, TYPE OF RESOURCE 0...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate). As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio. In Business Insig...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding "with ur" at the end of the queries in admin tool

We want admin tool to add "with ur" at the end of the queries when creating queries.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Stop Auto Restart

Setting that will give Cloud Administrators the ability to stop an auto restart in order for Cloud Ops to collect logs to pinpoint the specific problem more effectively.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration