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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Stop package invalidation after ALTER MAXPARTITIONS

These days in an agile world we have to ALTER PBG spaces on-the-fly to raise the MAXPARTITIONS value. Sadly this ALTER, even though it is an immediate ALTER, sets all dependent packages to VALID = 'N' which is, of course, a disaster.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Enable BCP to be able to issue SETLOGPOS via the batch interface

We are using BCP to manage subscriptions via batch jobs, the SETLOGPOS command is is the only command that is only available using a modify STC. We will like to have the SETLOGPOS to also be enabled from BCP batch interface so we can incorporate t...

Ability to delete objects from an instance & application

Objects can be decommissioned when they become redundant, and so being able to delete indexes/tables/databases etc from instances and applications needs to be supported by DOE.
28 days ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 2 Under review

Data Protection Rules - Support of does not contain action

The action block in Data Protection Rules limits the condition to "That contains any", we need to be able to choose "Does not contain any" like in criteria block in order to achieve our needs (see attached image). Currently, classification at colu...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Ability to add users (from user groups) to individual assets

Currently, if a user group is added to access a catalog, individuals who are part of that user group, cannot be added to assets. A large Federal customer requests the ability to both: 1) add user groups to catalogs (exists today), & 2) add ind...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Hierarchy indentation in Picklists

Currently, TM1 picklists are only showing a flat list of elements. Users are constantly asking for a way to show the right hierarchy indentation they are used to see in a normal subset. There are cases when they want to expand/collapse members in ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted