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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Temporal Base Table SQLOUT INSERTS have generate always columns as part of the insert

The timestamp columns supporting temporal should not be part of the INSERT. Also anytime a generate always column is excluded as it should have been in this run, columns must be added to the INSERT statement. --UNDO SQL FOR SUBSYSTEM: DAA1 --L...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

User Defined SQL within Report Studio access

Hi, Is it possible to include in future versions of Cognos the ability to allow specific users only access to read and execute report studio reports containing User Defined SQL but deny these users write access to the User defined SQL. Currently i...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

S3 INPUT node to read S3 and ICOS data.

want S3 INPUT node to read S3 and ICOS data.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Delivered

Clicks in viz should filter global filter in dashboards

When we click on a viz inside a dashboard it, by default, filters the other widget in the dashboard. It does not filter the data added in the filter pane which is also part of the dashboard.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

“ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improve the flexibility of changing PARTITION key

When to change PARITITION keys in multiple PARTITIOIN, a validation routine to check the data consistency runs every time ALTER command (ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION) is executed. In most cases we change the key value for multiple PARTITION keys an...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Prevent immediate reflection of PARTITION key changes

When changing partition key of PBR using ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION, it may take effect immediately without AREOR status under certain conditions, so please provide an option to allow PARTITION key changes to be reflected in the AREOR state upon ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Protection Rules - Support of does not contain action

The action block in Data Protection Rules limits the condition to "That contains any", we need to be able to choose "Does not contain any" like in criteria block in order to achieve our needs (see attached image). Currently, classification at colu...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration