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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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Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
10 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Externalize the -904 Resource Unavailable error pertaining to IDAA workload

Currently the resource unavailable messages for IDAA workload isn’t getting trapped in DB2 or logs. Except for the application logs and or additional trace processing. We would like for the IDAA related messages to be captured either in DB2 or SYS...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Configure a user-defined value for disabling all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing after a number of abends

When a certain number of abends occurs, while processing IFI requests, processing of all IFI request and MONITOR trace is disabled, requiring an action from Db2 operator/system administrator to be resumed. Today this number of abends, that disable...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

IFCID 366/376: include SQL text in the trace records

The analysis of IFCID 366/376 is done via SMF records. When these records are available (one day delay), it is nearly impossible to match the statement ID to a statement in dynamic statement cache, because the statement might be already discarded....
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable defined limits on sqltrace

We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Include process ID in past activities information in Cognos Administration

The Current Activities view in Cognos Administration includes a bunch of helpful information for troubleshooting including the process ID (PID). With the PID we are able to trace that process to the Cognos server and if we cancel the process in Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress "zero" option in Trace Cell function

Please provide an option to suppress zeros on the trace cell functionality. The new Trace Cell functionality in PAW is a great! Adding the ability to suppress zeros would make identifying problems quicker when there is a significant number of chil...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove active trace limit of 32

Today there is a limit of 32 active traces within a db2 member. But we have the need to start more..
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered