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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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Query optimization option for SQL statement would need to add the LOCKING ROW FOR ACCESS.

We need an enhancement request submitted in Aha to get query optimization options like Prefixes that go before the "Select" keyword, i.e. to enable "locking row for access"
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

dmctop - add interval and samples for background data collection

Like db2top, dmctop needs the capability to collect data using -i (interval in seconds) and -s (number of samples) when collecting data in background mode (-b).
over 1 year ago in Db2 / DMCtop 0 Not under consideration

Workspace | Add option to switch between Hierarchies

Dear IBM Ideas, We kindly request the addition of an option that allows users to conveniently switch between Hierarchies in a workspace workbook without requiring them to enter edit mode. Furthermore, we have encountered an issue when editing a di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Predefined standard roles for IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise\Express licensing in IBM Planning Analytics (TM1)

In IBM Planning Analytics there are predefined standard roles "Admin", "DataAdmin" and "SecurityAdmin". In Enterprise and Express licensing there is still the difference between "read and write" and "read only". To get a quick and easy license ove...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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...
11 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 ...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from.A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LOAD into accelerator table via ALIAS name

Currently, with IDAA Loader v2.1 it is not possible to LOAD data into target accelerator tables that are referenced via ALIAS names. It would be helpful and a great enhancement, e.g. for migration scenario to future IDAA versions, to reference the...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration