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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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Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Openpages - Workflow - Multiple Approvals for one stage.

We have a requirement for Risk Approval Workflow to get approval from Multiple Asignees. Example: For a particular Risk record, owners would be identified, Owners is a multi user field at risk object and the number of owners is Dynamic, it can ran...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Standard simulation tool for the import

Most modern application providing import features do have a simulation option that enable to check what lines / data cannot be integrated because of rules. This enable the users to correct the import without changing the content (e.g. : the lines ...
7 months ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Text Risk List Entries Having Option for Case Sensitive/Ignore Cases

We have clients who import attributes that are stored as text (Merchant Name) into their risk lists and the file they are importing comes through as all capital letters due to how their internal database stores the data. In order to account for th...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Override filesystem option for DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD and DSNISMKD jobs

For modules that create USS directories, the following modules exist: DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD, DSNISMKD They will all create directories under /usr/lpp/db2 or /usr/lpp/db2c10 (or another variant) It's possible to invoke these programs with a ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDAA V7: Add missing option to monitor IDAA appliance (HW error messages)

pain point: Currently there is no other way how to check appliance HW messages, than download trace (taking 3-5 hours) and check the trace or create new IBM CASE with the lab support and just wait. proposal: Add option how to issue basic monitorin...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CDC Management Console Monitor Role Should be Able to Signon to Datastores

We would like to give the CDC Management Console and the Monitor role to an application support group. Our CDC does data replication from z/OS Db2 to Oracle. The support group would then be able to monitor, among other tasks, table refreshes and t...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists