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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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DB2 CLI connect to remote database with encrypted password file

The DB2 CLI command line does not provide a way to use an encrypted credentials file to connect remote DB2 databases.The idea is to have a similar solution like the encryped password file for SQL/Q-Replication.The replication tool asnpwd can creat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Report Tab Name localization

It would be great if we can set page name with a report variable, in order to translate label in different languages, as we can do with any other objects inside report pages (text element, column header, ...). It is crucial when report is configur...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Provide option to exclude types of activities from Past Activities

It would be very helpful to have a way to exclude certain types of activities (such as Event Studio agent runs) from the "Past Activities" view of Administration (either in the C10 "Cognos Connection" Administration screens and/or the new C11 "Act...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Shielded VM on GCP

D&B is key customer who is looking to deploy Cloud Pak for Data on GCP with Shielded VMs. It is critical for success. all nodes will be shielded nodes and they will be shielded at all times. i.e. we cannot disable shielding during install/upgr...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

The "Move" of an object must be allowed even if a user is not enabled to "Delete" the object

Actual OpenPages behaviour: if a user has not the right to delete an object, the Move of the object is not allowed. New requirement: The client needs to enable a user to the "Move " for "specific object", at Rule Template level, even if this user ...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Enable to add custom first names to the underlying language dictionaries

Security organizations would like to analyze reports, in these reports officers often use partial person names (only last names for example). In SPSS Text Analytics there in an extraction option for "Group partial and full person names together", ...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Text Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity to Azure Table Storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Hi, I have a business requirement for us to be able to connect to Azure Table Storage to get the technical metadata from the tables which are stored there. Can you please make this connector become available in the next release. The connectors tha...
about 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

General behaviour of opening the set editor from Pafe Task Pane.

Problem 1 : If you select edit set from a specific subset then you don’t get to that subset, you get to the default (if defined) or the All Roots, not a logical step. Even more confusingly the header for the set editor gives the set name you opene...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration