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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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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.

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Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Using EGO Audit Logs To Monitor Log On And Log Off Events At Web GUI and All REST APIs

The EGO Event Audits summarized in Table 1. EGO Event Logging Details of this URL https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-conductor/2.4.1?topic=auditing-ego-event-audits define the EGO events that must be audited. The same URL defines the expected au...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enhance the Support Tool to be able to remove ZOMBI jobs and create a log of exec hosts and pgids that need to be cleaned

We had an issue where LSF could not keep up with dispatch due to high numbers of ZOMBI jobs. We would like the ability to shut down LSF and clean up the ZOMBI jobs via a Database repair to accelerate the time-to-restore of the LSF clusters.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Gateway Server should be able to process batches concurrently.

The best TPS we got in gateway server was 150. Our largest file from a customer has around 600k transactions. With the current throughput from Gateway server it woulld take around 1 hour and 7 minutes to ingest those payments. As a result, we woul...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Future consideration

Add support to update "Last Login Time" of Linux OS for Db2 LUW

Db2 LUW on Linux OS only use auth and password module of PAM to validate and change password, but it didn't record the "Last Login Time" for the users on the Linux OS, so we don't know if the users are actually using the Db2 for data query. And th...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Include user first and last name in user selector fields that are exported from UI

When users export from FLV to create fastmap templates, user selector fields are exported with user id only, and many times the user may be an employee id/non-descript identifier, so it would be great to have an export option where the user select...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Connection pooling should not lock databases if all connections are closed

In case connection pooling is enabled in the driver (no matter if using ODBC, .NET Provider or the .NET Core provider), the driver keeps connections from the pool open to the database server in order for a faster reconnect in the applications. Any...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Variable labels in regression mobile tables (output) as in checked in options

Now variable name used in tables even "labels" setting used in options. Add new checkbox for variable naming for regression tables or make it behavior more general.
about 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Future consideration