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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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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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Error message improvement when failing to convert tablespace to UTS PBG

Recently we are converting our old segmented and simple tablespaces to UTS PBG. When converting one of these tablespaces we got an abend and a DUMP showing reason code 00C90101. We opended a case (TS009249828) and analyzing the DUMP DB2 lab conclu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Arm64 support for Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx

I am trying to use the dotnet library Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx on an Apple Macbook M3 Pro, but it fails to work. I was told it is because the library does not support Arm64 systems. Can we add Arm64 support? See this thread for back story.
7 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Submitted

PAW - Change default for TI parameter to String from Number

In PAW, when adding a new parameter, it defaults to the Number format. However, as a developer, there is often a need for a String parameter rather than a Number. While there is an option to change the format for multiple parameters, it retains th...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Lock/ready-mark a subgroup

When using company status you ready mark a company (for a specific closing version, defined in the general configuration settings). However, other journal types than the ones included in that closing version is still open. In the next stage of rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Workflow in Controller Web - Submit

After submitting a submission in Controller Web, you get the following alternatives regarding where you want to go next: Back to overview Back to projects Cancel The best alternative for a logical workflow, would be to be able to select "Start rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

dashboard infographic - centred on page

A dashboard created with the infographic template is always left aligned. It pushes the dashboard upto the left hand edge of the browser window. This makes the dashboard look bad, it makes it look like it is wasting a lot of screen estate. Typical...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL CDC Client should support array fields

Array fields in the PostgreSQL CDC Client are unsupported. They are returned as strings or not at all depending on the configuration due to unsupported data types. When we add [] after any data type definition: i.e. INT -> INT[] means it's now ...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enhancement request - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector

Hi IBM team, Kindly find an enhancement request for - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector Problem: Using IBM Cloud Pak for Data –Redshift Connector (with WRITE MODE=LAOD), empty source tables are not getting loaded to target AWS-Redshift ....
2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review