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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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Connection Pooling for DataStage

We wish us that DataStage has the possibility to use a connection pool. We have thousands of connects and disconnects in Db2 that stresses out LDAP and use a lot of resources in Db2. It also costs a lot of unnecessary time.
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Features - Inactivity timeout for Planning Analytics as a Service - AWS

A customer using Planning Analytics as a Service on AWS wants to extend the inactivity timeout to 90 minutes. However, there is no option to do this in the Administration/Features section of PAW AWS version 2.0.99, unlike what is available in Plan...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Gateway property to allow customer configuration of large file threshold for allowing other gateways to pick up waiting files

Large files currently use a hard coded 50% of fragmentation setting to determine if they are eligible to move from the currently assigned Gateway to another Gateway that may be available for processing. This can have the effect of backing up large...
2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Sleep processor

A user's job is to stay in an asleep/hung state, which shows RUN on the LSF side. (due to some zombie process) On the LSF side, I would be nice to have, if the process is in a sleep state for 10 minutes and then kill/stop the process/job. Having a...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Ability to have online messages to detail why go-lives are in queue and pending processing.

Product and Tech support teams would have more visibility with understanding why a go-live is in queue. Specifically, support staff would be able to differentiate deadlock vs BAU processing situations. This would assist staff with determining if a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Add support for data retention for OpenPages

EU financial regulators now have stringent requirements around data retention and other regulators elsewhere are likely to follow soon. Such data retention requirements specify that certain customer/seller data must be deleted after a period of ti...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Under review

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration