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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Restricted access at a database level quiesce to prevent database activation in order to perform exclusive access operations like offline backup/restore in a multi database instance.

In a multi database system especially when running applications on platforms like OpenShift or even application servers like WAS where applications reconnect very fast, it becomes very hard or even impossible to get exclusive access to a single da...
1 day ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Allow option for or default option to turn "autocomplete" flag to off for password authentication in regards to the Jupyter notebooks

It is a low priority security vulnerability for web servers to allow password auto-completion. In most apps, this is a pretty simple fix, to configure the option to allow "autocomplete" to set to off. When I opened a ticket with IBM, their was not...
1 day ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Cube view should show data in PAW if there is no dimension in Row or Column

In a crosstab structure of cube view in PAW if we don’t put at least one dimension in both Rows and Columns the view does not show the data. This does not happen in TM1 Web. This is a very basic functionality of TM1 to play around with dimensions ...
about 10 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Validation of inputs based on rules

At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
about 14 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…) TS01740...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Submitted

CDC Latency - Long running UR

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017574974 - Cdc latency wrong value on MC. When there is long running UR in the staging space (meaning the data is way behind), MC shows 0 latency value. Because of the all applications see this 0 ...
6 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
7 days ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
26 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Omegamon Db2 -DB2 Thread History

Hello, DB2 Thread History - Can not see Transaction Name and Accounting String in detail We can see the transaction name and accounting string value partly in the thread history screen. However when we go into detail, we can not see transaction na...
5 days ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide a consolidate report that list all subscriptions and their STATE and STATUS on a specific source

We need a consolidate report that list all subscriptions and their state and status (similar to the CDA subscription display list that shows a list of all subscriptions and their state. Ideally we will like to have a Stand alone utility that conso...
about 6 hours ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Submitted