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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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auto clearance of "snappy" files

Snappy files are getting created while making AWS s3 connections under the path /dstmp. after sometime number files are getting larger and larger which may impact potential failures to jobs or environment level issues. to auto clean those IBM shou...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Top/Bottom Filter for Barcharts

Currently, only Explorations can be filtered by TOP/Bottom members (Membercount, Percentage, SUM). When you change to exploration to a - for example - barchart, this information gets lost. It would be a good idea to keep that dynamic filtering fro...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

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

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...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Safer Payments purge outdated entries limit

Problem Description: Purge outdated entries of indexes inside IBM IRIS Safer Payments does not support the concept of span control to limit the scope of removal of all index entries that are older than a defined maximum lifetime period. Supporting...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 2 Future consideration

Track the export history

The export of user data (*) is currently not logged. Considering the fact that SaaS use is becoming more and more common these days, customers are highly concerned about the security of cloud services, and we believe that information leaks are an ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information