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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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Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

DSNTIJRT need option to DISABLE GRANTs

When using DB2/RACF security you might have a requirement from your security auditors, that you don't perform any GRANT at all. This could be a general parameter in DB2OPT or a procedure specific option GRANTTO(NONE) in CFIGIN (both in the DSNTIJR...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Unload from full image copy

We would like to be able generate an unload job from the ICS panel.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for endpoints in S3 connector

We need to write files into our company amazon s3 bucket with Datastage 11.5.0.2. We cannot tune the S3 Connector component with our specific endpoint, as we could using "endpoint" parameter with aws cli.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Upgrade Log4j from 1.x to 2.x in IBM Infosphere MDM Platform.

Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained. Hence recommendation is to upgrade the Log4j to its latest version 2.x in IBM MDM platform that w...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Task workflow as a notification in the "UI Components Notification" section

We would need the ability to see the user's pending workflow tasks as a notification when the user is logged into IBM OP. It would help the user to immediately see his/her pending workflow.
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Track last used date for maps

We need the ability to see when a map was last used in order to mark them for potential removal from the system.
11 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

Copy Reports, Report views without report output and run history

In the managed area of your CA deployment we provide report views for the end users with predefined prompt values and settings. those report views are configured to show the most current report output when selected and are updated frequently by sc...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 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