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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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Column-level data masking via Data Protection Rule.

Currently we are able to define Data protection rule to redact data in columns that " have " a particular business term. There is no option to redact data columns where a particular set of business terms are " not assigned ".
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Warning error code for Db2 tablespace architecture limit

If Db2 tablespace reaches architecture limit of 90%, then there should be a Warning Message write into db2diag.log, so that before it is reaching 100% of Db2 tablespace architecture limit, this can be fixed. Now we are monitoring through a SQL...
over 5 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

new accounting trace field to indicate if distributed connection was secure or not

We have recently enabled the SECPORT in all our Db2 subsystem. And now it is possible for a distributed client to use the SECPORT (instead of TCPPORT) and establish a secure SSL/TLS connection to the Db2. Great. Ideally, I would like to shut down ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

overrule the automatic CPU parallelism calculation of LOAD apart from command line

LOAD does an automatic CPU parallelism calculation, if not explicitly specified in the command by the user.To gain max performance, LOAD assumes, it is the only LOAD (and only application) running on the system and consumes nearly all available CP...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Package Invalidation avoidance

At the moment nearly all online definition changes to an object leads per default to package invalidation.So online schema evolution is very useful, but with regarding to the availability (7*24) the package invalidation isn't a great implementatio...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

Extended options for PDF page setup

The optimization of the PDF output is quite circumstantial. Customers often like to have many elements on one PDF page. In the page properties it would be preferable to have an option in the PDF page setup (see screenshot) like "Render this report...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

enhance smf records for reporting secure connections

When just beginning to implement secure db2 ports (sometimes called encryption in-flight), it is helpful to report on the performance of queries that are secure vs queries that are non-secure. This can help us to fully tune our applications for th...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Inactive User Designation within the UI

Raised on behalf of client: When working with inactive users there are a number of advantages to be able to see when a User select field is populated with a user who has been marked as an inactive user. We would like to be able to achieve some of ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Allow Cognos to be automatically redirected on session timeout

According to this IBM Technote (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22011410) there is currently no way to redirect to an external product's logon screen. This causes undesirable behavior when linking Cognos to our SSO page. We are ab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration