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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Update iisenc / encrypt.sh output to have per-installation private secret

I was horrified to be told that IBM Support has the capability to decrypt "encrypted" password values in the ISX file we were asked to provide. This should be impossible in a secure system. Given that it is possible to move encrypted values betwee...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

In Portal, share a folder not using a custom perpective

When using the share option for a folder in the Portal, the link generated display the wrong perspective (?perspective=home). We created a «MyHomepage» for our company (?perspective=MyHomepage). Can we change this behavior by using the custom pe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Set context in folder

If the conditions of a folder are met, I'd like to be able to set a context for the whole folder (instead of resorting to adding a context dialog node as first node within the folder).
8 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Parameter to set REORG interrupt due to an unexpected wait

There are situations where a REORG utility can cause locks. A few weeks ago we suffered an episode of timeouts because a Reorg that was locking in the log phase. The Reorg was performing the consolidation of an ALTER DSSIZE in a UTS PBR. We didn't...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

allow the ability to generate REPLACE instead of RESUME YES

Sometimes you want to unload/load with REPLACE instead of RESUME YES. Need the unload utility able to generate LOAD REPLACE.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make the Db2 jdbc driver available in public Maven repository

Copy of an idea from here: https://ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/IDEA-I-2616.One thing I really like about open source databases is that they are so easy to start developing with.In java for example, I can create a project add the maven details for ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

GOC - ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); generating TS drop/create instead of an alter

DB2 V12 allows ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); to be materialized with an Alter. GOC is using old DB2 rules which drop/create TS.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please help make Export and Import more efficient

The process of transferring objects from one server to another has not been efficient for a long time. The process is too cumbersome. It would help administrators a lot if we can drag objects from one server and drop them to another server by spec...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize in PAW the “Accept Invitation - IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise XXXX Account” emails

System : Planning Analytics WorkspaceActor : Administrators We would like to be able to customize the email that is sent when users are invited to Planning Analytics Workspace by administrators. Currently the email is as below: Subject : Accept In...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration