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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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Deliver DSNHBNFE from SDSNSAMP in EBNF format

The DSNHBNFE member delivers a formal definition of the Db2 syntax in BNF format. However, tools like ANTLR can generate lexers/parsers automatically if the language is delivered in a EBNF format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%8...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 13 Not under consideration

PAW: Customized login error messages for non authorized users

Problem: When setting up PAW to allow for user imports (ENABLE_USER_IMPORT = false configuration setting) the message a user that tries to log on to Planning Analytics license without being set up as a PAW user is not user friendly and looks ver...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Current date to filter dashboard/report by default

Have a current date that globally can filter reports/dashboards without having to manually select it. When running a dashboard it should automatically be filtered for current day/week/month/year if thats in the dashboard
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 accounting SMF101 with reporting class

The absence of report class in DB2 SMF record 101 is cumbersome for capacity management. Report Class is used for workload reporting and accounting. To match SMF 72 (values by report class) with SMF 101 (values by thread, i.e. for userid and other...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Allow the server to automatically load the file" in Cognos Analytics 11.2+

Modern browsers have disabled sharing of full file path for security reasons. Cognos requires full path for this option to work but no modern browser will share full path. I ask if there are plans to change how it behaves on Cognos side to allow e...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Add support for clauses of aggregate functions in DQM

In 10.2.1 FP3 DQM added the support for aggregate functions (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660309. Specially the listagg function is of concern. The listagg function on DB2 has a specific within group clause, that is used for ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a STOP DB2 mode that cancels connected threads, but not internal processes.

We have struggled with getting a "clean" shutdown of Db2 for years. If we try to use STOP DB2 MODE(QUIESCE), Db2 will not stop. Persistent threads from STCs such as CICS regions, WAS Z servants, and ARS CMOD servers do not "end", so they never al...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration