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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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Lock Escalation Action zParm for Pre-Escalation

A new zParm that would enable feature in DB2 to: 1) detect request for LOCK ESCALATION2) lookup thread characteristics/criteria in control 'table'3) take action (coded in 'table') based on entry in control 'table', OR take a default action (i.e. d...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Digital Signature on Cognos report studio report by users

Dear IBM, Users are looking for a functionality to sign digitally to avoid validating the reports by taking printouts every day. Could you please let me know how to get this functionally/option to sign digitally by end users. Thanks, Karunakar
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ForgeRock / OpenAM to the OpenID providers

No Authentication Provider exists in Analytics R7/R8 for OpenID with ForgeRock or OpenAM.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add CLP commands not supported by ADMIN_CMD to CLPPlus

Some CLP commands are neither supported by CLPPLUS or ADMIN_CMD. BIND, REBIND and the various REGISTER commands for XSR are particularly troublesome examples. This means that we have to revert to CLP processing rather than doing everything in CLPPLUS
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

"delete cascade" does not work with "not enforced"

The option "not enforced" on a foreign key invalidates an already set "on delete cascade" option, although this is not visible anywhere within the data model or documentation. In my opinion, setting one of these options should prohibit the other o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 does not use a FlashCopy (Imagecopy) that has been migrated by DFHSM.

DB2 does not use a FlashCopy (Imagecopy) that has been migrated by DFHSM so we have check for this in RECOVER, which is a potential case for error/mishandling. DB2 should do a recall of recall of a migrated Flashcopy/Imagecopy as with all other s...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 11 Not under consideration

Breadcrumb navigation

Please add another prompt choice for breadcrumbs so that the drill down path in the hierarchy is shown and additionally clickable. The navigation bar on the left side in Cognos Analytics uses this method to navigate the Team Content and administra...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mobile Friendly Responsive UI in Cognos when viewing from mobile devices not just dashboard

When accessing Cognos from Android browser, UI need to be responsive and mobile friendly option/menu to have fluid experience
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration