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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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Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Timeout configuration for CHCCLP commands

Hi, The CHCCLP commands are executed in a sequence and immediately exit upon failure. There should be a configurable parameter that would be set with a duration in seconds so that each command completes on slow connections. Regards, Shekar K
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
3 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Jump between the variables / parameters at Variables / parameter section in a TI to define the names with arrow buttons

Dear Sirs, in PAW, doesnt matter what version, 2.0 or 2.1, it is not possible to use the arrow buttons to jump between the variable or parameter fields to update the names. It means, you have to go with your cursor to the specified field to define...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

CHECK utility SHRLEVEL CHANGE with less dataset privileges

To run CHECK utility with SHRLEVEL CHANGE you need ALTER privilege to the VSAM dataset where the table-, LOB- or index data are stored as the shadow dataset is created with almost the same name as the original. This also mean that the user will be...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...

Support C/4 für OData Connector

OData Connector supports only SAP S/4 Odata Services. We have to access also OData Sevices from SAP C/4.This could be provided by adding an option for S/4 and C/4. The Odata technology between S/4 and C/4 is the same. Only the base URL, which is h...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable of changing SWITCHTIME in REORG by ALTER command

SWITCHTIME command in REORG is valuable parameter to control the timing to cancel AREOR status. However, the value is not changeable from the one which is determined when REORG is executed. To increase its flexibility, we request you to be able to...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enhancing Report Interactivity with Data-Driven Prompts

This idea involves expanding the functionality of containers like lists, crosstabs, bar charts, etc., in the reporting canvas of Cognos, enabling them to serve as dynamic data prompts. This would allow users to configure these containers to set pa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted