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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy an existing monitoring profile

It would be nice to be able to create a new monitoring profile from an existing one then modify it to meet our needs. This option is available in Data Server Manager but not in DMC.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add DSNTIAUL comments support in SYSIN

We normally use DSNTIAUL with several SELECT statment coming from other applications. We would like to use them in the SYSIN statement but because some of this queries has the comment row that begins with '--' characters, it does not work. To allo...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery v2 connectors for private/protected websites should support redirection support other Authenication mechanisms

Customer has a private / protected website that they want to crawl using a Discovery v2 IBM connector for web crawling. The private / protected website has redirection to login page and authentication is using Azure Multi Factor authentication. To...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhance .NET API for maps

When attempting to use the reflection mechanism of OPL CPLEX API under .NET (version 12.9 but same problem seen in documentation of latest version), I stumble upon an error on my first implementation of a missing method "NbDim" for the map class "...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Make REGEXP SQL functions available in Db2 for z/OS without IDAA

We recently had a developer who wanted to use a REGEXP_LIKE clause in SQL for an application. He was told that this functionality was available in Db2 12 for z/OS. However, on further investigation, the functionality requires IDAA. We assume that ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Db2 Image Copy

Support for Db2 Image Copy. Overall support for full and incremental read-only access to Db2 base table copies for the purposes of accessing archival data, expanded exploitation and JOIN of existing Dbz and non-Db2z datasets for single point of ac...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Data module: Possibility to export it to Excel

I think it can be very useful to have the possibility of a direct export to excel format (or other "standard" formats) of data modules, without necessarily having to create a report or a dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

diag log search

DSM previously had a Diagnostic Log view for viewing/searching data server diagnostic and event messages. This functionality does not exist in DMC. The layout in DSM provided an easy way to review multiple diag logs in one place and should be adde...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration