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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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IBM to look for trigger file when placing Cubes in sFTP site to avoid Cube files from being separated during transfer

Originally had this case open: TS001299703 So basically, we are trying to build cubes here in onPrem Transformer, sFTP to IBM so they are available in the CA11 Prod Cloud environment each day. The sFTP steps are proving to be the bottleneck becaus...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable DSNTIAUL to generate NUMRECS in the punchdataset

The UNLOAD using DSNUTILB generates the NUMRECS parameter which makes the Allocation of Sort/Workdatasets for the Load utility very effective. Because some collegues use IKJEFT01 (DSNTIAUL) for unloading data, we tried to use NUMRECS here also. Bu...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve AOT backup performance

We're using IDAA loader V 2.1 to run backups for very huge AOTs. When IDAA loader takes a backup from an IDAA AOT it uses SQL multirow fetch to transfer the data from IDAA into a z/OS sequential file. This may work fine for small AOTs. But in our ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Supply RACF Exit IRREVX01 to fail commands against Db2 classes that don't have the proper syntax.

As encountered in Case TS013914362, invalid profiles would not be created that could leave unused records in the RACF data base and also confuse Db2 when RACF notifies Db2 to refresh the cached profiles. All Db2 for z/OS users utilizing RACF could...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Lock-Escalation from Row- to Extent-Level

Db2 is mainly using row-level locking and tries to avoid lock-escalation to table-level. This behavior is helpful in most of Db2s use cases, but there are some particular situations when locking on a higher level than row would be beneficial. Cons...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration