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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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Add MS SQL Server 2019 support in Federation & Q-Replication...

TSMC needs to replicate data from DB2 ESE to MS SQL Server 2019. As you know, MS SQL Server 2019 already been GA recently (2019/11/04 https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/2019/01/sql-server-2019-versions.html), they are requesting this new feature...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set the default source view of cubes

We'd like to be able to set the default source view of cubes in Report Studio. Currently, Member Tree view is the default source view in Analysis Studio. Similarly, we would like to have the default source view of 'show members only for dimension...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View package properties like datasources, my permissions, contents etc.

We should be able to see all the properties/options associated with a package, like, the package datasources, my capabilities, my permissions, package configuration options (modify/remove the package configuration), package contents, etc., like we...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support required for a boolean data type.

Support required for a boolean data type.We request that we can use boolean data type columns for filter conditions in 'Workspace Advanced' and 'Report Authoring'. Related APAR#: PI37846
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

Remove ISPF restriction preventing the actual count of objects returned from using the SARG command

Please remove the ISPF restriction that is preventing the following in Db2 Admin Tool (rejected in DB2ZADMTL-I-85) - I have used panel ADB21K and the count as an example below, but the misleading count occurs on other panels when you have used the...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration