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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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Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

DSNTIJRT need option to DISABLE GRANTs

When using DB2/RACF security you might have a requirement from your security auditors, that you don't perform any GRANT at all. This could be a general parameter in DB2OPT or a procedure specific option GRANTTO(NONE) in CFIGIN (both in the DSNTIJR...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Change position for group of widgets

In Planning Analytics Workspace Current behavior: When we group multiple widgets together, Changing the position for the group using properties the position assigned to all widgets inside the group not to the group position. Steps to reproduce: 1-...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

UX Improvements on Master Data Explorer UI

It will further support our business end users of MDM in navigating the Master Data Explorer. Furthermore, it will improve ALL end-users experience when performing advanced searches. Here are the specific improvements via feedback: - In addition t...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Re-architect to not require permanent storage of userids and passwords for access

The current architecture of Tuning Management Services component of Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS requires a permanent storage of a userid and password in order to facilitate use of QWT. Our shop uses Multi-Factor authentication for human user...
11 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

WKC query functionality

As a data steward I would like to be able to query metadata about the assets that I own. As a data analyst I would like to be able to query information about a particular business term and its use.
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Enhancements to OQWT Query Advisor

We use OQWT advisors regularly for both reactive and more common proactive performance review The DSM tool seems to be working fine, although we really need the query and Access path advisors to work. One of my concerns with the advisors (OQWT (DS...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Ability to display Notifications upon Logon to the system

If administrators need to inform users of planned outages / send short term warnings that the system needs to go into a maintenance cycle - then Cognos currently does not offer any options to do so.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Build automatically Function in Report Studio

In previous version (impromtu) there was an automatic build up of the function/help available at the moment you started the expression. This nice feature is lost in time. would be nice to get this back as many users are struggling with enterring t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Requesting Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal to Temporal Table

This RFE/Idea is to request Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal source to Temporal Table target. The existing Q-Replication only supports from Temporal to Temporal tables. For reporting within FTM (Financial Transaction Manager), there is a...