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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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LOAD a TABLE with WHEN / DISCARD

When loading a table with WHEN and DISCARD, rows that do not qualify because of the WHEN condition get "discarded" and:- discard file is populated with them- it is impossible to distinguish records discarded because of the WHEN clause and e.g. the...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Filtering navigational tree in PAW

Filtering navigational tree in PAW would help users in quicker menu navigation - they could find the desired objects without cumbersome browsing the whole tree. User experience would benefit a lot with this solution
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Global searchable custom attributes on governance artifacts

Ability to do a global search on the custom attributes assigned to governance artifacts similar as for custom attributes on assets. This will help the end user being able to search for information that is captured in the custom attributes but also...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Detailed descriptions on reports or other objects do not show

In version 10 easy to see the detailed descriptions on reports or other objects. In version, 11 the only way I can figure out how to see these descriptions is to individually click on each one
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Externalize dictionary information using ADMIN_GET_TAB_DICTIONARY_INFO for BLU tables

BUILDER,BUILD_TIMESTAMP,SIZE,ROWS_SAMPLED and are important information to be able to determine how good a dictionary might be.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Delivered

Allow usage of NX842 hardware compressed backup together with backup encryption

NX842 allow backup compression without CPU overhead, but cannot be used in conjunction with encryption feature.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

PAW Reset to inital state

We would like a feature that would be in planning anlaytics workspace. was wondering if IBM could implement a feature in PAW next to the undu and redu button that would essentially bring the sheet back to the inital state when the book was opened....
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

To tighten security, disable Users from accessing their credentials in secrets, but allow access from flight service only

Currently their are some security holes in the product in that users can read out credentials from secrets. This can happen accidentally or deliberately through a malicious user. Consequence is that credentials stored can be exposed and used elsew...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 5 Delivered

Diff function for produce log records after VSAM files are REPROed

Many customers are using IDCAM REPRO to update/replace the whole VSAM file during a nightly batch job. The repro operation does not create records in the logstream. As a result, user has to perform REFRESH to resynchronize the target database. Som...
about 3 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Delivered

Fast Apply - allow ALA@FSP to pass work to DSNTEP4 if unable to process query

We use IBM Fast Apply (program = ALA@FSP) to apply SQL statements we have generated (not coming from LAT as any undo/redo activity). The tool cannot handle everything that is supported by DSNTEP4. So, thought is to have it push the work to DSNETP4...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered