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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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Support for creating DB2 Load Data Sets in RECFM=VBS Format with embedded LOB data

DB2 LAT to support creation of load files in RECFM=VBS with embedded LOB/XML data. DB2 LAT supports log processing to create load files for tables with LOB/XML columns. At present DB2 LAT only allows LOB/XML columns to be extracted into PDS or PDS...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Tool db2batch should be able to display Number of rows affected

Often db2batch is used for tuning / benchmarking purposes and very often the number of affected rows is interesting. Command line tool. 'db2'. provides the option to display the Number of rows affected, db2 -tvmf <SQL-DML-File> $ db2 -t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Remove need to prefix numbers in import template with an apostrophe to stop them getting converted to decimals on import

If numbers in the import template are not prefixed with an apostrophe they get converted to decimals or exponential format if the number is large when the template is imported. Having to put that single quote in multiple attributes on the template...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Provide Full Cognos Analytics Functionality When Running From A Mobile Device

Provide the ability to create data modules and perform administrative tasks when running/accessing Cognos Analytics from a mobile device (i.e. iPad).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Avoid DSNB260I

many DSNB260I received on DB2, during many many hours, when CDC REFRESH is working. There are apar with parameters for mirroring but not for refresh. (exemple PM57708) - parameters here : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTRGZ_10.2.1...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Is a defect

Ability to Drill down to any path(dimension) feature

User can create a report in "Cognos Report Studio" and have the ability to enable the drill down features. But the drill down options are based on the pre-defined hierarchies those created in the Dynamic Cubes or any framework deployed packages. A...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Installation progress details in Silent installation

Hi Team, Recently i used congos 11 analytics server installation on our premise and used Command line procedure as silent installation with response file. I observed that while installation it is not giving any progress of installation procedu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration