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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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HPU V5.1 - Keep the connection in TSO / DB2 CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF instead of ODBC/RRSAF (the same as HPU V4.3 version) RFE 123074

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123074 Communication switches to ODBC / RRSAF instead of DB2CALL. Our environment has the 'Exit' DSN3@ATH (Conections = TSO / DB2CALL / BATCH / UTILITY / CAF) which changes t...
over 7 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Audit Sampling Engine

OpenPages IAM should provide a medium to gather population from core banking and apply sampling techniques and reverse sampling techniques to generate sample sets for Financial Audit purposes. IIA recommended sampling techniques should be configur...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Not under consideration

RSCA questionnaire should not be sent out for approval when there are rejected questions.

1.Log in to OpenPages as sqmRCSADRO1 2. Navigate to Questionnaire Assessment tab 3. Click on questionnaire that is in "In Review" lifecycle status 4. Open the questionnaire 5. Reject the first question 6. Click on "Approve and Compl...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Not under consideration

Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

OpenPages error message for Malicious attack should pinpoint the specific field/text location where error exists

In OpenPages 7.2+ version, whenever user copies some text/formatting which may include unwanted hidden characters from Word/Outlook to OpenPages detail page and tries to save the record, users get "Malicious Attack" error and they are logged out o...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Is a defect

Timesheet Approval Helper to Show Total Number of Hours for each day as shown in time sheet entry helper.

Timesheet Approval Helper should Show Total Number of Hours for each day as shown in time sheet entry helper.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Not under consideration

For DB2 Force, allow for execution of SQLs prior to the SELECT

There are many times when we need to execute some SQLs prior to the actual SELECT that will unload the data. This could be as simple as SET CURRENT SCHEMA TO XXXX; (if we are using secondary auth id, the default schema of the tables can not be spe...
over 3 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

DB2 HPU should honour AUTH_COMPATIBILITY

Db2 High Performance Unload does not honour Db2 v12 zparm AUTH_COMPATIBILITY when it is set to Null. There has long been the need to lock down the Unload utility to minimise data leakage risks. This capability was delivered in Db2 v12, but it has ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Policy Author field to be multi-select

PCM module does not allow Policy Author field to be multi-select. If you change the display type of the field to multi-select, it will break the OOB Policy Unlock Helper, which is expecting the Author to be a single user when it determines if the ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration