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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at 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.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

View systems messages - keep history of messages and alerts with details

System messages popup top right of screen for a number of seconds and then disappear. We should be able to review all of the messages\alerts raised and drill into the details i.e. you run a TI process from an action button. While away from your co...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Reset an invalidated statement level optimization hint

If a statement level optimization hint was invalidated for whatever reason one has to repeat the whole process to get the same hint again.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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
almost 4 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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Add a parameter to disable "unpopulated cells" spreads

The spread types "Repeat leaves" and "Equal leaves" have very dangerous options to spread to all leaf cells instead of populated ones. In a large cube with many dimensions containing many elements, the number of empty cells to write on jumps very ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Enhance Trace Cell function

Please add following possibilities to the trace cell feature: Zero suppression must be enabled! Enable Drill Through within trace cell function Possibility to export results Possibility to use the filter criteria of a traced cell into the ex...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to store and write data into the audit db after a short network issue

When the connection to the Audit DB is lost for a few minutes the created audit data during that time is not written into the db afterwards.In case a RemoteLogServer is in place as a single point of logs the dispatcher who send the logs to the Rem...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration