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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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Permission on (specific) query based on user role, user group or user

It should be possible to restrict a query or a group of queries within a mandator to specific user roles, user groups (for cases) or even specific users (e.g. private queries). Currently every user that has the "view query" permission sees and can...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Provide the Advanced Drill Functionaility in the Interactive Viewer

By default the interactive viewer allows users to drill up and drill down on any projected items. Please provide the ability to restrict the drill up and drill down entirely and on an individual Query Item basis. This functionality used to be avai...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) disabled

The application "DmClient.exe" executable was not using the DEP protection. Since DEP is disabled, arbitrary exploit codes can be written and executed from memory location leading to attack, such as buffer overflow, among other attack vectors.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

As an editor i want to see which nodes are jumping to the node i'm working in

When working in complicated flows, where jump-to's are used to move the user laterally through a dialogue, we lose sight of which jump-to's are implemented. When updating or deleting a node we need to know when we shouldnt just check/update the ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to turn off DB2 security

Could we get a ZPARM that allows the deactivation of DB2 security in favor of a security product (ie. RACF). It would be nice if RACF was the ONLY authoritative source for security requests. Currently if a result isn't returned by RACF, DB2 checks...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Give the option to make an index "invisible" to DB2

Sometimes, when I have added and index, I have had some surprises in the optimizer using that index when it should not. I would like a quick way to make the index "invisible" to the optimizer and make it not eligible for access paths until I speci...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add multi-thread cancel capability to PE Client

As a System Admin, I would like the capability to cancel multiple Db2 threads from PE Client Thread Summary display with just one mouse click. I would like to select one or more threads and, when I click the right mouse button, have the opportunit...
7 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable Non-Owners to Replace R/Shiny Deployments

Background: After making changes to an R/Shiny dashboard (and promoting the updated asset to a deployment space), it is preferable to "replace the asset" of an existing deployment rather than create an entirely new one (and delete the old one). Is...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted