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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Specify User Exit routine name when defining IMS-DB virtual table

In Japan, most IMS user customers, especially in financial sector, have their roll-your-own program modules called "DBI" (database interface), and database access must be made through DBI always. DBI provides, for example, data compression/de-comp...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Apply Copybook when defining Db2 for z/OS virtual table

(This IDEA item was written based on a customer requirement revealed in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, customer cannot apply COBOL copybook (assembler DSECT, PL/I DCL statements, etc. also) when defining DBMS (RDBMS) virtual table includi...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Order of Dimension Structure Items in the Tree Structure Report

The order of the items of the Dimensions in the generated Tree Structure Report. We have reordered the imported dimensions on the reorder tab, but the new order does not reflect accordingly on Tree Structure Report. Currently, it is using the crns...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Ignore warning or error

When creating undo records there is the possibility, that the rows for an affected table could not be recreated, because an image copy is missing (ALAA107E). The job for the "DB2 LOG ANALYSIS TOOL" stops. What we expect is, that to tool writes a w...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Delivered

MDM CE NEW UI - Needing of the "Actions" button of multi-edit links redirected from the Custom Tools and Entry Previews

The users are needing the "Actions" button to perform different tasks on items that are resulted from the redirect. 1. What is the use case for Custom Search Tool which cannot be fulfilled using the Search Menu provided with New UI ? The users are...
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Re-orientation of row selection in grid Dashboar

We have a dashboard with cross filters and table grid with rows. Whenever we select some row in table grid, its get highlighted. When we select some other cross-filter which can accommodate that particular row ( cross-filter can drive this grid ),...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Remove the restriction on dropping a table in an explicitly created universal table space

We have converted most of the Segmented & Partitioned Tablespaces in our ERP Dev region to Universal Tablespaces. But, later started facing some issues due to the conversion as UTS are not supported by the ERP application. All the Table change...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Simplified compression dictionary management and its availability for CDC tables

Hello, we would need a simplified compression dictionary management.Currently, Db2 permanently stores the compression dictionaries for compressed tablespaces in: 1. the dictionary pages in the tablespaces and image copies, 2. the Db2 log after REO...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Analytics Accelerator Studio - Adjust query monitoring table, adding column

DB2 V10 NFM - IBM Data Studio 4.1.0.1 - IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator Studio 4.1.0.3. On Accelerator Management panel, the query monitoring box can be customized using the Adjust Query Monitoring Table panel. On the available columns we have not f...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered