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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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Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Addition of a 4-4-5 Calendar

Add a 4-4-5 calendar to be choosen just like the 4-5-4 one already implemented
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support XLookup on TM1Web Websheet

XLookup function is getting very popular these days in Excel community, Planning Analytics is a tool that embrace Excel, therefore this function should be supported.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option in db2look to not extract LBAC every time

All of the LBAC definitions are extracted and printed every time the -e option is specified. If one just wants the DDL for a single table, all of the LBAC definitions are printed, even if that table has nothing to do with LBAC. A -nolbac option wo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module - Alert feature

A feature that alerts when you want to modify a data module that is opened in edit mode by someone else (Like in Excel)
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HAA - PBR containing XML generated REORG that abended because XML running at the same time as an index in the base table containing the XML column in two separate jobs

Base table has index: Name Schema T DB Name TS Name Cols Rows Chks * * * * * * * * ------------------ -------- - -------- -------- ------ ----------- ---- MASTER_TRANS_MTR ZAP2 T DZAP2QR1 SQR1MTR 17 10 0 XQR14MTR Column Name Seq No O Col Type Leng...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

HAA - RUNSTATS grouping all NPSI partitions into one job instead of spreading the objects across multiple jobs

Running RUNSTATS on TS with NPSIs. All partitions were put into the same job instead of being spread across the 20 jobs. This is true for Reorg, but not RUNSTATS.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration