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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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Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Management as a Roles Permission

Move User Management Privileges from Global Privileges to a Role permission. Currently, user management is permissioned via a global privilege on a user's account. When the "user accounts" privilege is set to "change," the user can view and edit a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Close report set as homepage

When setting a report as the home page, we want the option at any time during the session to close that report and then return to the default home page.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

'My Schedules and Subscriptions' screen does not give details option like Path of the report/Job

'My Schedules and Subscriptions' screen does not give details option like Path of the report/Job, How do we identify what job/report is associated with what location, Also missing the information of what dispatcher is executing a particular Job li...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data source support for SAP BW4/HANA

SAP announced new BW4HANA platform at autumn 2016, which is a performance optimized and much simpler approach than old BW on HANA solution, which IBM does support. BW4HANA should be added as supported data source to allow high-performance access t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

PAW Documentation

We need to justify PAW's infrastructure and security requirement due to its super complicated infrastructure requirement, most IT department from mega-size companies to SME cannot understand how PAW actually work and approve the PAW's infrastructu...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift

Customers at the TAB meeting in Malta asked if/when Db2 support for Red Hat OpenShift will be available. With the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, support for OpenShift will become more and more important.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Full interactivity should be set to 'No' for reports copied from older versions

The property ‘Run with full interactivity’ should be set to 'No', by default, for reports which are copied (using copy-to-clipboard), from reports originally built in older versions of Cognos. Currently in C11, reports 'migrated' (export/import) f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration