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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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File Management in PAW

In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer something like a file explorer in PAW to upload different types of files so that every user can download them...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Feed Q Replication with your own LOAD keywords for automatic load

Recently we had opened a case TS013850174, which could not be addressed correctly b/c it requires an enhancement. Problem was as follows. Due to an error in our change management process, target table had a unique index, which was not present at t...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Customize the root folder holding the user-specific PAfE folders and files

Planning Analytics for Excel / PAfE creates user-specific folder and files, for instance the user-specific configuration files CognosOfficeReportingSettings.xml CommManagerSettings.xml, in a user-specific folder "Cognos\Office Connection" which is...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration