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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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Limit batch connections via DB2 profile tables

We had a few instances where an errant user submitted multiple batch jobs against a DB2 subsystem and caused DB2 to reach IDBACK limit. This affected other users trying to submit batch jobs for an extended period of time. Making use of DB2 profile...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Saving new default "run as" parameters for reports

Looking for ability to save default "run as" parameters for reports including run in background, report format (Excel, PDF, etc.), and advanced settings so that users do not have to change these settings every time they run a report.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Security 1 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Allow Informix to kill sessions not only limited by session-id

Informix should be able to kill sessions not only limited by session-id:For example: If a admin should kill sessions from a specific user or host a script is needed. So it would be helpfull if onmode -z would accept following syntax for example:$ ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Include "Always create extended data items" option in CA11

In Cognos 10.2.2 - When authoring report based on TM1/Planning Analytics Cube – we have the "Extended Data Item" option disabled in the Report Studio options (Tools menu) so our users are able to edit data item items which you drag into new report...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

possibility to add a column at the partition clause without dropping the table

We would like to have the possibility to modify the PARTITIONING clause without DROPPING the table, with an ALTER COMMAND
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Suggestion for pop-up message in contributor application in Planning Analytics

As we are aware, in contributor application, when a user submits data in the lowest level node(zero), it gets populated by respective node contributor and submitted for further approval by reviewer (one level above). If the reviewer thinks the dat...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration